Ukraine nuclear plant enters fifth day on emergency power as Zelenskyy announces $90B arms deal
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -Ukraine’s Russian occupation Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant He ran to the fifth day on Saturday and increased his security concerns by running at the emergency generators.
Meanwhile, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced a $ 90 billion arms agreement with the US for carrying out Hungary for carrying out “dangerous” intelligence -collecting drone activities on Ukraine.
External power Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, On Saturday, Greenpeace Ukraine was cut for more than four days at a record deduction at the six reactor facilities on the front of the war, the largest in Europe.
According to the UN nuclear guard dog, emergency diesel generators are used to give strength to cooling and safety systems after the last power line has been cut on Tuesday. Rafael Grossi, General Manager of International Atomic Energy Agency, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, but the external power supply was not restored.
Reactor seeds and used nuclear fuel, an earthquake and tsunami should be cooled to prevent dangerous melting, such as those who occurred in 2011, when they hit the Fukushima factory in Japan, to prevent them from overheating and triggering. UN atomic waiting It has been warned repeatedly The possibility of a radiation disaster, as in Chernobyl, about 480 kilometers (300 miles) in the northwest, where a reactor exploded in 1986.
Ukrainian officials confirmed the seriousness of the situation. Energy Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk told Associated Press that the facility, which is an important violation of the conditions of normal operation, remains in darkening mode ,, pointing to the 10th event since Russia’s full -scale invasion in February 2022. The reason, since the Russians’ full -scale invasion, said that there was another bombardment that suffered the only power transfer line that supplies the facility from the Ukrainian energy system.
The Russian controlled telegraph channel for the facility said on Saturday that “generators have sufficient diesel fuel reserves on the spot to ensure long -term autonomous work,” he said.
“Emergency diesel generators are considered only as the last defense line used in extreme conditions,” Greenpeace said, “Emergency generators are considered only in excessive conditions,” He said.
“These are undoubtedly the most serious and important events since the beginning of the occupation of ZNPP by Russia in March 2022,” he said.
Images show that Russia can try to restart a reactor
Putte said that Russia’s “deliberate actions olan, which led to the interruption of the facility from the external power network of Ukraine. He warned that the development of the development of Russia’s state -owned nuclear energy company Rosatom’s “long -standing target” “Zaporizhia and Donetsk to the illegal occupied power network and improved the restart of the nuclear reactor”.
Greenpeace Ukraine’s new satellite analysis shows that Russia positions at least one reactor despite its high -risk battle time conditions. The Environment Group said that Russian engineers built 125 miles (201 kilometers) that connect the transformer centers in the occupied Melitopol and Mariupol cities and the construction started in December 2024.
According to Greenpeace’s analysis, Russia has completed the construction of a new water supply system for the cooling pool of the facility and has deliberately damaged a 750 kilovolt electric line connecting the facility to the electricity network of Ukraine.
Associated Press could not independently confirm the analysis of Greenpeace Ukraine.
The facility has been held by Russia since then Moscow’s invasion In 2022. Six reactors, although they are at a cold closing, continue to be fed with uranium-that, that is, nuclear reactions stopped. However, relying on external electricity to keep the plant reactor cool and strengthen other safety systems. This external power was cut many times in the war and forced the facility to rely on diesel generators on the field.
Ukraine, the city of Zaporizhzhia, which is a southeast of Kiev, about 440 kilometers (275 miles) Attacks occurred around the plant Because the front line is close. IAEA rotates the personnel through the facility to check the safety of the facility and provide expertise.
Zelenskyy weapon agreement and regional tensions
In a press briefing in Kiev on Saturday, Zelenskyy, in a press briefing, which he called the “Mega Agreement için for weapons recruitment from the United States, detailed technical meetings, starting in late September. The $ 90 billion package includes both a large weapon agreement and a separate “drone agreement için for the Ukrainian -made drones that the US will buy directly.
“We discussed and accepted the main points with the President (Trump).
Zelenskyy also criticized the Hungarian drone on Ukraine, saying that Ukrainian intelligence was watching at least one drone. Zelenskyy, “I believe they do very dangerous things – first of all, very dangerous things for themselves,” he said.
Intelligence services, although “Hungarian intelligence works on the territory of Ukraine,” despite the fact that the drone movement of photographs and electronic monitoring, he said.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, published on Facebook on Friday, said that the President of the Ukrainian “lost his mind” and sees something ”.
Hungary, led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, continued close ties with Russia and criticized military aid to Ukraine.
Zelenskyy also announced last month that an Israeli patriotic air defense system operates in Ukraine and two additional patriotic systems came in autumn.
“The Israeli (Patriotic) system operates in Ukraine. He has already been working for a month, a month,” he said. Israel refused to comment.
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Elise Morton, Associated Press writer in London, contributed to this report.
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