Ukraine continued to supply fuel to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant after it was seized by Russians

Ukraine continued to supply fuel to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant even after it was seized by Russians.

This information reported according to Minister of Energy Herman Halushchenko.

According to his information, approximately 500 tons of diesel fuel were transported to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant through Russian checkpoints.

“Ukraine and ‘Energoatom’ [the Ukrainian state enterprise responsible for nuclear energy] were procuring and transporting through Russian checkpoints. We asked for an agreement on a corridor to supply there, so that when there were seven blackouts, we wouldn’t have a nuclear accident. In reality, the Russians control it there, so let them transport diesel, but they didn’t do it, and we did. Because we understood: if one of those seven blackouts resulted in a diesel shortage, it would be a nuclear disaster,” said the minister.

Earlier reports indicated that “Energoatom” continued to spend hundreds of millions of hryvnias on tenders for the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant even after it was seized by Russians. According to data from Prozorro (Ukraine’s public procurement system), tenders worth 566 million hryvnias were announced for the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant after the invasion.