23/03/2022 15:09

The actions of the racist army at Ukraine’s nuclear facilities threaten an environmental catastrophe for the entire Eastern European region

 Since the beginning of the Russian military aggression against Ukraine, all Chernobyl NPP objects and facilities in the exclusion zone have been under the control of the aggressor country's military.

 Regulatory control over the state of nuclear and radiation safety at the station site and in the exclusion zone, as well as control of nuclear materials is still impossible.

 Information on safety parameters and the state of the radiation situation at the site indicates a trend of steady deterioration of a number of indicators.  The occupier continues to grossly violate the requirements of radiation safety and sanitation, which leads to a deterioration of the radiation situation and contributes to the spread of radioactive contamination outside the exclusion zone.

 Scheduled work, maintenance and repair of systems and equipment of Chernobyl facilities are not carried out as a result of the occupation.

 This situation has already made it impossible to restore the operation of individual neutron flux sensors, gamma radiation dose rate and radiation pollution, further failure to perform repairs may lead to failures of other systems and elements important for safety.

 The actions of the russian military at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant are a gross violation of the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Hostile Use of Environmental Means and Article 56 of the 1977 Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions and Other Acts Regulating International Nuclear Obligations.

 I call on international partners and the IAEA to take all possible measures to withdraw the troops of the Russian Federation from the territories of the NPP and to take the nuclear facilities of Ukraine under their protection.