Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources: Ukraine informed the IAEA about the actual loss of control over nuclear and radiation facilities in the exclusion zone

Ukraine informed the IAEA about the actual loss of control over nuclear and radiation facilities in the exclusion zone, an increase in radiation levels due to the seizure of the Chernobyl NPP zone on February 24, 2022 by the troops of the Russian Federation.

Such actions of the Russian Federation are a direct violation of the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949 concerning the protection of victims of international armed conflicts of June 8, 1977.

The whole world recalls and remembers with pain in its heart one of the greatest

environmental catastrophes - the Chernobyl NPP accident.

For decades, together with the free world, Ukraine once protected the whole world from nuclear danger.

But, unfortunately, today the whole world is facing a new terrible threat of nuclear danger - Russian armed groups have seized all the facilities of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

There are more than 22,000 spent fuel assemblies of the reactor in the spent nuclear fuel storage facilities ISF-1 and ISF-2. In the hands of the aggressor, this significant amount of plutonium-239 could turn into a nuclear bomb, which will turn thousands of hectares into a dead desert.

The seizure of the Chornobyl zone by the occupying forces will result in the destruction of infrastructure and facilities that protect Europe and the world from the consequences of the Chornobyl disaster. The humanitarian and environmental consequences of such a catastrophe will have no limits, will not affect either NATO or the EU, they will have dire consequences for the people.

Only joining forces we will force the aggressor to pay the highest price for the crimes in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, which he seeks to commit against Ukraine and the world!