Live: Russians to connect Zaporizhia power plant to Crimea

Published on: 08/10/2022 – 06:50 Russian forces, which are occupying the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporijjia, are preparing to connect it to Crimea, annexed by Moscow, reports the Ukrainian operator Energoatom. Follow the latest developments on France 24. 1:19 a.m .: the Russians will connect the Zaporizhia power plant to Crimea The Russian forces occupying the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia are preparing to connect it to Crimea, a peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014, and damage it by carrying out this reorientation of electricity production, alerted the president of the Ukrainian operator, Energoatom, Petro Kotin on Tuesday. “To do this, it is first necessary to damage the power lines of the plant connected to the Ukrainian energy. From August 7 to 9, the Russians have already damaged three power lines. At the moment, the plant is operating with only one production line, which is an extremely dangerous mode of work,” he added. “When the last production line is disconnected, the plant will be powered by generators running on diesel. Everything will then depend on their reliability and fuel stocks,” also warned Pet. ro Kotin. 12:01 a.m .: “Crimea is Ukrainian and we will never give it up”, insists Zelensky an update. “Crimea is Ukrainian and we will never give it up. We will not forget that the occupation of Crimea was the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine”, insisted Volodymyr Zelensky during his daily address. “The world is beginning to realize that it was wrong in 2014 when it decided not to respond with all its might to Russia’s first aggressive actions.”e of the Chernobyl disaster, after new strikes at Ukraine’s nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia occupied by the Russians. “The world must not forget Chernobyl and the fact that Zaporizhia is the largest power station in Europe. The Chernobyl disaster (in 1986) was the explosion of a reactor and the Zaporizhia power station has six reactors,” Volodymyr Zelensky said in his daily video address. With AFP