Ukrainian Defence Intelligence Explains Putin’s Plans For Zaporizhzhia NPP

They sent a high-ranking Kremling official to the plant.

A high-ranking official from the Russian Federation, Sergei Kiriyenko, the first deputy head of the administration of dictator Vladimir Putin, arrived at the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

Representatives of the Ukrainian Defence Intelligence disclose details and the purpose of the visit on the official Telegram channel.

“The official purpose of Kiriyenko's visit is to get acquainted with the situation at the plant and check the general security. Unofficially, Putin's envoy was supposed to demonstrate the absence of panic, as well as try to solve problematic issues related to staffing the plant. According to available data, Kiriyenko and Gauleiter of the Zaporizhzhia region Yevgeny Balitsky held a meeting regarding additional attraction measures to get potential workers from Russia. To achieve this, they planned to provide Russians with housing seized from the Ukrainians who left the territory of Enerhodar. They are going to resettle up to 4.500 Russians in this way. However, there are few people who want to come to the Zaporizhzhia NPP," he said.

The threat of a terrorist attack on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that the risk of undermining the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant by the occupiers really exists. The station is mined, and Ukrainian intelligence knows that the aggressor state has plans to create an artificial leak of radioactive substances at the Zaporizhzhia NPP.

Later, the head of the Ukrainian Defence Intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, said that the threat of a Russian terrorist attack at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant was gradually decreasing. He did not name the reasons for reducing the probability of undermining the NPP by the occupiers. However, Budanov immediately stressed that the threat of a catastrophe at the Zaporizhzhia NPP will exist as long as Russian occupiers will be there - as long as the station is occupied by Russian troops, such provocations can be repeated at any time if they want.

The American nuclear society also noted that the Russian occupiers could blow up the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. However, there will be no repetition of the Chornobyl disaster. Even the worst-case scenario does not pose a radiological hazard to the people.

Ukrainian diplomat Volodymyr Ohryzko noted that if the aggressor state Russia decides to arrange a catastrophe at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is under the control of the Russian invaders, NATO won’t react to this in any way. Even if the cloud of radiation reaches the NATO member states they will still simply turn a blind eye to this, because they do not want Russia to disappear from the world map.