Chernobyl NPPMOSCOW, Mar 13The Ukrainian regulator said efforts to repair power lines at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant are ongoing, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a statement. Earlier, the IAEA reported that Ukrainian technicians had begun repairing damaged power lines to restore Chernobyl's off-site power supply.» Regarding the situation at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the Ukrainian regulator said that efforts to repair damaged transmission lines are ongoing, but external electricity supplies remain interrupted since March 9,» the organization said in a statement. It is noted that, as noted in the Ukrainian department, «diesel generators continue to provide backup power to security-related systems. «On Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that Ukrainian troops had attacked the power grid facilities that provide power to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Russian specialists took prompt measures to switch to backup e diesel generator power supplies. 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. Later, President 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.» Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the Russian President stressed.
