Several regions of Ukraine were fired upon by Russian troops on Saturday night. In the southern city of Zaporizhia, close to the front, infrastructure objects were hit. There are fires. Governor Oleh Staruch called on the population to go to shelters.
However, the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant causes real problems, as it has to be disconnected from the power grid from time to time due to attacks on the substations. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, spoke positively regarding the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant following talks with the presidents of Russia and Ukraine. “The work goes on and I think we’re making good progress,” Grossi said of his plans for a security zone around the contested Ukrainian nuclear power plant. However, there were no concrete signals of approval from Moscow and Kyiv.
However, the Ukrainian chief diplomat made it clear that Kyiv is demanding more than the ceasefire proposed by the IAEA around the Russian-occupied nuclear power plant. “I have reiterated that Russia must withdraw from the facility to ensure nuclear safety,” Kuleba wrote on Twitter. In addition, Russia must stop kidnapping and intimidating Ukrainian power plant personnel. In the past few days, the nuclear power plant, which is currently idle, has twice been cut off from the external power supply, which has to be used to cool the radiating nuclear material, due to hostilities. Grossi has repeatedly pointed out the risk of a nuclear accident, since the plant can only be supplied with emergency power from diesel generators for ten days.
