"Hot shutdown" of ZNPP block needed for Russians only for blackmail - DIU
Currently, there is no technical need for a "hot shutdown" of ZNPP unit four.
Representative of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine Andriy Yusov said this during the telethon "United News", Ukrinform reports.
"What is happening today, when, for example, the fourth unit was put into a hot shutdown regime, is an absolute violation of both safety standards and Ukrainian nuclear legislation. And most importantly, there is no technical need for this. There is no technical need to put the fourth or other units into a hot shutdown regime," Yusov said.
Yusov noted that it is rather the opposite - this is done to maintain the nuclear blackmail regime. "And we understand that a hot shutdown potentially poses a greater threat in terms of a man-made disaster," the representative of the DIU said.
Answering a question about the information that the plant's employees had previously resisted the demand to organize a hot shutdown, Yusov said that, first of all, the involvement of employees from other territories of the Russian Federation in the plant's territory does not stop.
According to him, yes, there are a small number of them, including collaborators whose names are known.
"But in general, we must understand that the team has been under pressure since the occupation, with strict filtration measures being taken. And, of course, we are talking about numerous human rights violations against the Ukrainian staff of the plant. These are regular war crimes. Information about this is being collected, and the perpetrators will definitely be punished," he assured.
Separately, the representative of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine said that the Russians are taking IAEA experts around the ZNPP territory wherever they want to take them.
"Not only on the roofs but on the ground, in the blocks and other premises, they (IAEA experts - ed.) cannot go right or left, wherever they want. There is a visible part of the mining, and there is a part that they cannot see. But the very fact that they have limited access and go not where they want to go on the territory of the ZNPP, but where they are allowed to go, indicates that the terrorists have something to hide," Yusov said.
According to him, until the plant is demilitarized by withdrawing the occupation troops and returning it to Ukraine's control, there will be no full access of IAEA experts to ZNPP and no restoration of nuclear safety standards.
As reported, on July 24, Energoatom said that the Russians had put ZNPP unit 4 into a "hot shutdown" state.
For its part, the IAEA informed that representatives of the International Atomic Energy Agency had found anti-personnel mines on the territory of Zaporizhzhia NPP.
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