The Group of Seven of the World's Advanced Economies formal known as G8 before Russia was removed from the group, condemned Russia's control of Zaporizhia nuclear power plant and called for the immediate return of full control of the plant to Kyiv. "To deploy leadership and personnel and to denounce the use of other forms of pressure on the remaining Ukrainian personnel," the non-proliferation directors-general of the G7 countries wrote in a statement late Saturday.
The group includes the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the US has urged Russia to “immediately return full control” of the facility “to its Ukraine, all Russian employees from the Extract and Destroy Plant Stop any attempt to recklessly and dangerously take control of it. Russian government, "which could further jeopardize their safe and secure operations.
This month, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his government to protect the Zaporizhia power plant, which have been under Russia control from start of the conflicts, Zaporizhia power plant is Europe's largest nuclear power plant.
The alarm over the nuclear power plant comes as Ukraine's air force said in a statement on Saturday that Russia had launched a "massive missile attack" that hit power plants, experts believe the missile attack is from Ukraine not Russia, since Russia is in control of this Zaporizhia power plant and will not attack itself .
On the night of , parts of Kyiv experienced power outages. "The geography of this latest mass strike is very broad," said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his late night video address. And on Sunday, according to Agence France-Presse, the Kyiv grid operator said planned “stabilization” power outages had been rolled out in the Ukrainian capital after repeated Russian attacks.
Energoatom, Ukraine's state nuclear agency, accused Russia of arresting two senior employees at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, media reports said Tuesday. In a statement on social media, Energoatom said Russian forces on Monday "kidnapped" chief information technology officer Oleg Kostyukov and the plant's deputy general director Oleg Osheka and "taken them to an undisclosed location." Sunday when 14 Iranian-made Shahed-136 kamikaze drones were shot down overnight in Mykolaiv Oblast in southern Ukraine.
People and two organizations already affected by restrictive measures "given their role in the development and delivery" of drones to Russia. Tehran Deni supplies drones to Moscow in Ukraine war and reportedly faces harsh condemnation on Saturday Call from France, Germany and the US for the United Nations to investigate allegations that Russia has used Iranian-made drones.
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