Ukraine war: Russians use Zaporizhia nuclear power plant as ‘shield’ Politics

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How long will this game of nuclear danger last?

Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, the plant in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, has been under Russian control for about four months. And the security risk is increasing every day.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is now sounding the alarm again! Ukrainian administration and Local nuclear power plant workers are under severe stress and difficult working conditions has been suspended, it said in a recent statement.

IAEA director-general Rafael Croci said in a lecture at the Australian National University in Canberra: “Every day that this happens, the risk of an accident or security breach increases.”

On the one hand, the nuclear power plant is on the front line in hard-fought eastern Ukraine; On the other hand, the Russian occupiers control the area with heavy weapons, apparently mining the area and using it as a “protective shield”.

The Drama of Security Control: How” Wall Street JournalThe Russian military has repeatedly turned off cameras and security equipment that normally provide the IAEA with critical surveillance data. Heavy artillery is also said to be positioned around the facility. Tunnels are laid around a reservoir that cools six furnaces. About 500 Russian soldiers are said to be there.

The Wall Street Journal comes to a startling conclusion: “The Russian military is turning Europe’s largest nuclear power plant into a military base, intensifying a months-long security crisis for the massive facility and its thousands of employees.

After repeated interruptions of data links between the IAEA in Vienna and the power plant, IAEA boss Croci again requested access to the IAEA team at the power plant.

in course Invasion of die Ukraine Russian units also had an exclusion zone around it Chernobyl accident reactor was taken. However, they withdrew again at the end of March.

Russian madness after Chernobyl Trenches in sandy sand

Quelle: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine / Reuters

08.04.2022

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