Russia has not received an American proposal to resign on the Nuclear Power Plant Zeporizzhia in Southeast Ukraine and the change of ownership of the facility is not conceivable, said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
His comments were in accordance with the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in March that Moscow would not assign control of the plant or agree to operate the facility together with another state.
The currently extinct atomic plant, the largest Europe, has been occupied by Russia from the first weeks of the invasion of a neighbor in Moscow in 2022.
ZNPP, near the town of Enervodar, is now dominated by Rosatom, a Russian state nuclear company, with monitors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN Nuclear Watch, turned to the facility.
Lavrov said in an interview with CBS Face The Nation – performed last week and broadcast on Sunday – that the security requirements for the race “are fully implemented and in very good hands”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenky said in March that if the US helped return the power plant to Ukraine and invest in it, Washington and Kyiv could work together. He estimated that it would take years of costly repairs to safely return Zeporizhzhia.
The facility appeared as part of the efforts of Trump’s administration to strengthen cooperation with the Russian energy sector because it seeks an agreement to end the war in Ukraine, Bloomberg informed. One proposal would see how the US took over the race to be considered Ukrainian territory, with all electricity supplied in Ukraine and Russia.
“We have never received such an offer,” Lavrov CBS said. “I don’t think there could be no change.”
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