Africa Daily News, New York reports that for weeks now impasse over a Russian-occupied nuclear power plant in Ukraine has sparked concerns of a radioactive catastrophe, however, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered to intervene to resolve the issues.
The pledge from Saturday was made just hours before the UN watchdog for atomic energy revealed that Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant couldn’t access its last available power line to the grid and was now reliant on a backup line.
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As concern over the recent gunfight and bombardment at the vicinity of Europe’s largest nuclear facility has grown, Ukraine announced on Friday claiming the bombarded of Russia camp in the neighboring town of Enerhodar. The attack resulted in the destruction of three artillery units and ammo storage.
Vladimir Putin was informed by Erdogan on Saturday that ‘Turkey can play a facilitator role in the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, as they did in the grain deal’, Turkey’s presidency declared.
One amongst the biggest exporters of grains in the world, Ukraine, was forced to cease virtually all shipments after Russia seized it in late February, sparking concerns about a potential world food shortage.
Following the agreement of a deal between Kyiv and Moscow in July, grain exports that operations at the Black Sea ports were reinstated with guarantees from the United Nations and Turkey.
As Erdogan made phone calls to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday, reports indicate that there were no remarks regarding his mediation
After Erdogan visited Lviv for negotiations, he raised the consciousness of the threat the nuclear disaster posed to the environment.
The Turkish leader said he wanted to avoid “another Chornobyl”, referring to the world’s worst nuclear accident in another part of Ukraine in 1986, when it was still part of the Soviet Union.
A reference to the worst nuclear catastrophe ever, which occurred in 1986 in a different region of Ukraine while it was still a part of the Soviet Union, the Turkish leader said he wished to avert “another Chornobyl.”
The situation has been lingering for a while without any indication of an accord reached.
