Overview

• During a meeting in Beijing, Vladimir Putin said that if favorable conditions arise, Russia, the United States, and Ukraine could cooperate at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear facility.
• Ukraine’s Energy Ministry warns that introducing unidentified Russian management or control systems would be a deliberate escalation that turns the plant into a military tool and threatens European safety.
• The Foreign Ministry says Rosatom is directing operations at the occupied site, interfering in technical processes, pressuring Ukrainian staff, and limiting the IAEA mission’s access to meaningful information.
• Officials highlight degraded safety conditions, citing the loss of primary reactor cooling after the Kakhovka dam’s destruction and nine complete blackouts following disconnections from Ukraine’s power grid.
• Kyiv calls for urgent IAEA scrutiny, including at this month’s General Conference, and demands the immediate withdrawal of all Russian personnel from the plant.