Head of Ukraine’s state nuclear power company on Zaporizhzhia plant: 'Russians are packing their bags’

9:45 am, November 27, 2022
Source: Ukrainskaya Pravda

Petro Kotin, president of Ukrainian state nuclear power company Energoatom, said he sees signs that Russian troops are planning to leave the area around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

“First of all, there’s a lot coming out in the Russian press about how maybe it would be worth it to give up the ZNPP, maybe it would be worth it to let it come under IAEA’s control. You know, it gives the impression that they’re packing their bags and that they’re going to steal everything they can find,” Kotin said, according to Ukrainska Pravda.

Kotin emphasized that “it’s still too early to say Russian troops are leaving the ZNPP,” but that they are “preparing.”