Russia is step by step decreasing the variety of personnel on the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy station in southern Ukraine, Ukraine’s navy intelligence company stated on Friday.
It didn’t say why some folks had left and Reuters couldn’t independently confirm the info. Russia, which has occupied the plant since March 2022, didn’t instantly touch upon the assertion.
Kyiv accused Russia this month of planning a “terrorist” assault on the nuclear plant involving the discharge of radiation. Moscow denied the accusation.
“According to the latest data, the occupation contingent is gradually leaving the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant,” Main Directorate of Intelligence on the Ministry of Defence (GUR) stated on the Telegram messaging app.
GUR stated that among the many first to depart the nuclear energy station have been three staff of Russian state nuclear agency Rosatom who had been “in charge of the Russians’ activities”.
It stated Ukrainian staff who’ve signed a contract with Rosatom had additionally been suggested to depart.
Employees ought to depart by July 5, it stated, and ideally head for the Crimea peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014.
GUR stated the variety of navy patrols was additionally step by step lowering on the plant’s huge territory and within the close by metropolis of Enerhodar, and personnel remaining on the plant had been instructed guilty Ukraine “in case of any emergency situations”.
Ukraine performed nuclear catastrophe response drills on Thursday within the neighborhood of the plant.
Kyiv and Moscow have accused one another of shelling the huge complicated on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy station, Europe’s largest.
Ukraine, then a part of the Soviet Union, suffered the world’s worst nuclear accident in 1986 on the Chornobyl nuclear energy plant.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
