Any statements by officials and international organizations calling for the return of the “Zaparozhsky nuclear power plant (ZAEC) to Ukraine or the establishment of international control over it are considered Moskaya as an attempt to encroach on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Russia. This is stated in the statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry in connection with two -year anniversary of the “return” ZAES to Russian jurisdiction.
The department reminded that the ZAES was controlled by Russian troops in March 2022 during a “special military operation”, and according to the results of the Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions held at the end of September 2022, the Russian Federation became part of the Russian Federation As “new subjects”.
“Immediately after the station’s” Atomic Family, it was permanent and effective functioning, began to constantly threaten Kiev, which not only provides provocations against the ZAES and its satellite city of Energodar, but also continues to terrorize the staff of the station and their families ” , – says in the message.
The Russian Foreign Ministry also expressed special gratitude to the General Director of the IAEA Rafael Grossy, who has visited Russia twelve times since March 2022, including four times at the invitation of Moscow, he visited the ZAS.
“Russia is taking all possible measures to increase the reliability of protecting the station, strengthen its nuclear and physical nuclear security in accordance with national legislation and the obligations arising from specialized international legal instruments, which is our country,” noted In the department.
At the same time, the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized “that any resolutions, as well as statements by officials and international organizations calling for the” return “of the ZAES Ukraine or the establishment of international control over it, are considered by us as an attempt to encroach on sovereignty and territorial integrity of Russia” . “In the created conditions, we will further strengthen the protection of the ZAES and the city of Energodar in such a way as not to give Kyiv and its curators in the person of the” collective West “to violate it,” the department added.