The occupiers registered a military unit on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia NPP

In the occupied Enerhodar, the Russians registered a military unit of the Russian Guard with a legal address that coincides with the address of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

The Center for Journalistic Investigations writes about this with reference to Russian registers.

Military unit №6945 (TIN 9001028566) was registered on July 30, 2024 in occupied Enerhodar at the address Promyslova Street, 133. The industrial facilities of the ZNPP are located at this same address.

In the Russian register, access to data on the head of the military unit is limited. However, there is information about the founder — this is the Federal Service of the National Guard of the Russian Federation, the publication notes.

What is the situation at Zaporizhzhia NPP?

The station came under the control of the Russian Federation in March 2022. Due to Russian shelling, the station experienced eight complete blackouts and one partial blackout, with emergency diesel generators and security systems being activated.

On June 22, 2023, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the Russian occupiers may be thinking about committing a terrorist act with the release of radiation at the Zaporizhzhia NPP.

On June 29, large-scale special exercises aimed at preparing for a possible terrorist attack at the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant began in the Kherson, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhzhia regions.

Also, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, a population evacuation plan was developed, as well as routes that would be used to transport people to safe places in the event of an explosion at the Zaporizhzhia NPP were determined.

At the same time, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Maria Zakharova , accused Ukraine of allegedly intending to «carry out a terrorist attack» at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Enerhodar.

On July 6, the head of the State Administration of Ukraine announced that the threat of an artificial man-made disaster at the occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP is beginning to subside.

In total, during the two years of occupation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant , more than 150 gross violations of the operation of the nuclear power plant were recorded.

The chairman of the board of NAEC «Energoatom» Petro Kotin previously stated that due to the incompetence of the staff recruited by the Russians, the necessary repairs and inspections are not carried out at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.