Russia's lavrov digs over the control of the Zaporizhzhia plant

Russia has not yet received an US proposal to give control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine, and a change to the ownership of the facility is not imaginable, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. His comments are in line with the statement of the foreign ministry in March that Moscow will not compensate or agree to the facility to operate the facility with another state. The atomic plant currently dissolved has been occupied by Russia since the first weeks of Moscow’s full -scale invasion of Russia. Znpp, near the city of Enerhodar, is now controlled by Rosatom, the core corporation of Russia, with monitors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear gras, to the facility. Lavrov said in an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation – which was conducted last week and broadcast on Sunday – that safety requirements for the plant “have been fully implemented and that it is in very good hands.” Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in March that if the US helps to return and invest the power station to Ukraine, Washington and Kyiv can work together. He estimated that it would take years of expensive repairs to safely return Zaporizhzhia. The facility has come as part of a Trump administration effort to increase the cooperation with the Russia energy sector because it has an agreement to end the war in Ukraine, Bloomberg reported. In one proposal, the US would take over the plant, which is considered the Ukrainian area, with any electricity supplied to both Ukraine and Russia. “We never received such an offer,” Lavrov told CBS. “I don’t think any change can be imaginable.” © 2025 Bloomberg MP This article was generated from an automatic news agency feed without edits to text. First published: 27 Apr 2025, 23:06 IST