01:01The Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (ZNPP) 'works quite steadily' despite the destruction of the Kakhovka HPP dam, the Governor of the Zaporozhye regional administration Evgeniy Balitsky stated on Friday during a press conference on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
The acting governor said that at the moment it was 'practically meaningless' to rebuild the plant because of what he called a possibility of repeated shelling.
"[Towns of] Marganets and Nikopol are located at a distance of three or four kilometres, respectively, they can be hit by сannon, mortar, rocket artillery," Balitsky noted.
The acting governor also stated that the Russian Armed Forces had not given away facilities to the enemy in the Zaporozhye direction.
"The fact that a number of settlements were given away on the Vremevsky ledge, in general, this does not affect the special military operation. These settlements are located on the lowlands, respectively, they are shot from all sides, it is not of strategic importance to capture them," he said.
On the same day, the Russian Defence Ministry reported in a daily briefing that the most active combat operations at the Vremevsky ledge took place in the areas of Rovnopol and Urozhaynoye of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
"As a result of the courageous actions of Russian units of the Vostok Group of Forces, air strikes and artillery fire, five attacks by AFU units were repelled," the ministry said.
In turn, a daily briefing by the AFU General Staff as of 18:00 on Friday said that 'in the Zaporozhye and Kherson directions the enemy continues to conduct defensive actions'.
Both Russia and Ukraine have repeatedly accused each other of striking the ZNPP, since it came under Russian control in March 2022.
On September 2022, the IAEA's board of governors adopted a resolution calling on Russia 'to stop all actions against the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and any other nuclear facility' in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the move 'important' and stressed the necessity to demilitarise the plant and 'immediately withdraw all Russian military from there'.
Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's permanent representative to the IAEA, called the document 'anti-Russian' and said it was drafted 'unprofessionally'.
Head of the Russian-controlled Novaya Kakhovka administration, Vladimir Leontyev, reported on June 6 that overnight strikes had destroyed the upper part of the HPP and that 'water began discharging uncontrollably downstream
Kiev blamed Russian forces and called the destruction of the plant an 'ecocide'.
In a telephone conversation with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the incident at the Kakhovka HPP was an example of Ukraine 'making a dangerous bet on escalation of hostilities, committing war crimes, openly using terrorist methods, organising sabotage on Russian territory'.
The destruction of the Kakhovka dam also posed a threat to the ZNPP, which receives water to cool its power units. During a visit to the ZNPP on Friday, Rafael Grossi, Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), noted that after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, the water level in the reservoir for cooling the ZNPP is sufficient.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
Russia: Zaporozhye NPP 'works quite steadily' - Acting head of region Balitsky
The Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (ZNPP) 'works quite steadily' despite the destruction of the Kakhovka HPP dam, the Governor of the Zaporozhye regional administration Evgeniy Balitsky stated on Friday during a press conference on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
The acting governor said that at the moment it was 'practically meaningless' to rebuild the plant because of what he called a possibility of repeated shelling.
"[Towns of] Marganets and Nikopol are located at a distance of three or four kilometres, respectively, they can be hit by сannon, mortar, rocket artillery," Balitsky noted.
The acting governor also stated that the Russian Armed Forces had not given away facilities to the enemy in the Zaporozhye direction.
"The fact that a number of settlements were given away on the Vremevsky ledge, in general, this does not affect the special military operation. These settlements are located on the lowlands, respectively, they are shot from all sides, it is not of strategic importance to capture them," he said.
On the same day, the Russian Defence Ministry reported in a daily briefing that the most active combat operations at the Vremevsky ledge took place in the areas of Rovnopol and Urozhaynoye of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
"As a result of the courageous actions of Russian units of the Vostok Group of Forces, air strikes and artillery fire, five attacks by AFU units were repelled," the ministry said.
In turn, a daily briefing by the AFU General Staff as of 18:00 on Friday said that 'in the Zaporozhye and Kherson directions the enemy continues to conduct defensive actions'.
Both Russia and Ukraine have repeatedly accused each other of striking the ZNPP, since it came under Russian control in March 2022.
On September 2022, the IAEA's board of governors adopted a resolution calling on Russia 'to stop all actions against the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and any other nuclear facility' in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the move 'important' and stressed the necessity to demilitarise the plant and 'immediately withdraw all Russian military from there'.
Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's permanent representative to the IAEA, called the document 'anti-Russian' and said it was drafted 'unprofessionally'.
Head of the Russian-controlled Novaya Kakhovka administration, Vladimir Leontyev, reported on June 6 that overnight strikes had destroyed the upper part of the HPP and that 'water began discharging uncontrollably downstream
Kiev blamed Russian forces and called the destruction of the plant an 'ecocide'.
In a telephone conversation with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the incident at the Kakhovka HPP was an example of Ukraine 'making a dangerous bet on escalation of hostilities, committing war crimes, openly using terrorist methods, organising sabotage on Russian territory'.
The destruction of the Kakhovka dam also posed a threat to the ZNPP, which receives water to cool its power units. During a visit to the ZNPP on Friday, Rafael Grossi, Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), noted that after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, the water level in the reservoir for cooling the ZNPP is sufficient.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
The Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (ZNPP) 'works quite steadily' despite the destruction of the Kakhovka HPP dam, the Governor of the Zaporozhye regional administration Evgeniy Balitsky stated on Friday during a press conference on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
The acting governor said that at the moment it was 'practically meaningless' to rebuild the plant because of what he called a possibility of repeated shelling.
"[Towns of] Marganets and Nikopol are located at a distance of three or four kilometres, respectively, they can be hit by сannon, mortar, rocket artillery," Balitsky noted.
The acting governor also stated that the Russian Armed Forces had not given away facilities to the enemy in the Zaporozhye direction.
"The fact that a number of settlements were given away on the Vremevsky ledge, in general, this does not affect the special military operation. These settlements are located on the lowlands, respectively, they are shot from all sides, it is not of strategic importance to capture them," he said.
On the same day, the Russian Defence Ministry reported in a daily briefing that the most active combat operations at the Vremevsky ledge took place in the areas of Rovnopol and Urozhaynoye of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
"As a result of the courageous actions of Russian units of the Vostok Group of Forces, air strikes and artillery fire, five attacks by AFU units were repelled," the ministry said.
In turn, a daily briefing by the AFU General Staff as of 18:00 on Friday said that 'in the Zaporozhye and Kherson directions the enemy continues to conduct defensive actions'.
Both Russia and Ukraine have repeatedly accused each other of striking the ZNPP, since it came under Russian control in March 2022.
On September 2022, the IAEA's board of governors adopted a resolution calling on Russia 'to stop all actions against the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and any other nuclear facility' in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the move 'important' and stressed the necessity to demilitarise the plant and 'immediately withdraw all Russian military from there'.
Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's permanent representative to the IAEA, called the document 'anti-Russian' and said it was drafted 'unprofessionally'.
Head of the Russian-controlled Novaya Kakhovka administration, Vladimir Leontyev, reported on June 6 that overnight strikes had destroyed the upper part of the HPP and that 'water began discharging uncontrollably downstream
Kiev blamed Russian forces and called the destruction of the plant an 'ecocide'.
In a telephone conversation with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the incident at the Kakhovka HPP was an example of Ukraine 'making a dangerous bet on escalation of hostilities, committing war crimes, openly using terrorist methods, organising sabotage on Russian territory'.
The destruction of the Kakhovka dam also posed a threat to the ZNPP, which receives water to cool its power units. During a visit to the ZNPP on Friday, Rafael Grossi, Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), noted that after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, the water level in the reservoir for cooling the ZNPP is sufficient.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.