DEA News reports that Renat Karchaa, adviser to the general director of the Rosenergoatom concern, disputes Ukraine’s claims about a power outage at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant caused by bombardment by the Russian Armed Forces. He says there are multiple possible explanations for any outage, including issues with high voltage lines and wear or failure of technical equipment. He notes that no independent analysis has been conducted because Russian experts have not been able to access the site for reasons that are described as obvious.
Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the administration of the Zaporozhye region and a former head of the movement We are with Russia, criticizes the UN’s stance on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant situation. He interprets the United Nations as acting in a way that appears deliberately ambiguous in seeking to establish a security zone around the plant.
Rogov argues that in Western discourse disarmament is understood as removing guards from critical facilities and pulling back security personnel, including the National Guard. He asserts that such steps could create an opening for the Ukrainian army to seize the nuclear facility, which he says is a troubling prospect from his perspective.
He further claims that today the UN appears to reflect primarily the interests of the United States and Britain, casting doubt on the agency’s mediation efforts and reliability in this particular crisis scenario.