BERLIN
\nThe G7 Foreign Ministers called on Russia to immediately transfer the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and all nuclear facilities in Ukraine to Kiev\u2019s control, according to the joint statement issued on Wednesday by the German Foreign Ministry, which holds the G7 presidency.
\n\u201cWe, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, and the High Representative of the European Union, reiterate our strongest condemnation of the ongoing unprovoked and unjustifiable war of aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. The Russian Federation must immediately withdraw its troops from within Ukraine\u2019s internationally recognized borders and respect Ukraine\u2019s territory and sovereignty,\u201d the document states.
\n\u201cIn that context, we demand that Russia immediately hand back full control to its rightful sovereign owner, Ukraine, of the Zaporizhzhya (Zaporozhye – TASS) Nuclear Power Plant as well as of all nuclear facilities within Ukraine\u2019s internationally recognized borders to ensure their safe and secure operations,\u201d the ministers said. They believe that \u201cUkrainian staff operating the Zaporizhzhya (Zaporozhye – TASS) Nuclear Power Plant must be able to carry out their duties without threats or pressure.\u201d \u201cIt is Russia\u2019s continued control of the plant that endangers the region,\u201d the G7 foreign ministers stressed.
\nThe Ukrainian armed forces have repeatedly shelled the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. Energodar\u2019s military-civilian administration reported that shrapnel from a missile fired on the night of August 7 fell no further than 400 meters from the operating power unit. The day after the Ukrainian military shelled the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant area three times on August 5, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the region\u2019s military-civilian administration, told TASS that the air defense team in the Zaporozhye Region would be strengthened.
\nWith a capacity of around 6,000 megawatts, the six-unit Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is the biggest one in Europe. It used to generate a fourth of Ukraine\u2019s electricity. Since 1996, it has been an isolated unit of Ukraine\u2019s Energoatom national nuclear company. In March 2022, control of the power plant came over to Russian forces. Currently, it is operating at 70% of its overall capacity, since there is oversupply of electricity in the Zaporozhye region. It is planned to supply electricity from this power plant to Crimea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BERLIN The G7 Foreign Ministers called on Russia to immediately transfer the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and all nuclear facilities in Ukraine to Kiev\u2019s control, according to the joint statement issued on Wednesday by the German Foreign Ministry, which holds the G7 presidency. \u201cWe, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n