Chernobyl exclusion zoneMOSCOW, Mar 11President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that Russian President Vladimir Putin asked him to help restore power supply at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and the Ukrainian side «does not need it.» the largest power plants, nuclear, all this was ready (to) blow up. Now we see what is happening in Chernobyl. But they (Kiev — ed.) do not need: let anything happen there. We brought electricity there by force to the Chernobyl station » , Lukashenka said on Friday in Moscow during talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.Ukraine told the IAEA that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was turned off. Lukashenka added that he had information that «foreign mercenaries are moving (in Ukraine — ed.) along the border of Belarus to the Chernobyl plant.» «Three points: they want to cut off the movement of Russian troops — to hit in the back, as I said. Secondly, they want to hit the positions of those troops that we have left from the Belarusian-Russian exercises. And they do not lose hope of dragging us into this massacre directly so that we expose the western section,» he said. Lukashenka stressed that «they are not so simple.» «And what they want to do in Chernobyl, we still have to figure it out with you,» he added, urging «not to justify to anyone.» Zaporozhye (operating) nuclear power plant. As the Ministry of Defense reported on March 9, Ukrainian nationalists attacked the power grid facilities that provide power to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, but Russian specialists took prompt measures to switch to backup diesel generator power sources. Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Pavel Sorokin noted that the Belarusian side promptly worked out the issue of restoring energy supply under a permanent scheme from the Belarusian energy system. provocations from Ukraine
