Ukraine will increase payments to loyal personnel nuclear power plant
2022.12.14 12:53
Ukraine will increase payments to loyal personnel nuclear power plant
Budrigannews.com – Energoatom, the Ukrainian agency in charge of atomic energy, said on Wednesday that employees at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station who remain loyal to Kyiv would receive higher bonuses.
The largest plant in Europe, located in southern Ukraine, has been under Russian occupation since Russia’s invasion on February 24 but is still run by Ukrainian workers.
Energoatom said that Russian forces were telling Ukrainian workers at the plant that if they didn’t sign contracts with Rosatom, Russia’s nuclear energy company, they wouldn’t get paid after January 1.
Energoatom issued a statement stating, “These statements are another shameless lie.”
According to the statement, “Energoatom continues to guarantee the payment of wages and all compensations provided for in the collective agreement to employees of ZNPP (Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant).” Energoatom will also increase the bonus for ZNPP employees who remain loyal to Ukraine from January 1 by 20% to 50%.
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Russia did not respond to the statement immediately. Energoatom’s claims were impossible for Reuters to independently verify.
In what Kyiv deemed theft, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a decree in October that transferred the Zaporizhzhia plant from Energoatom to a Rosatom subsidiary.
The plant is in Zaporizhzhia, a region in Ukraine that is also known as Zaporizhzhia. This is one of the four regions that Putin claims he has incorporated into Russia, which Kyiv calls an illegal land grab.
The plant produced approximately one fifth of Ukraine’s electricity and nearly half of the energy produced by the nation’s nuclear power facilities prior to Russia’s invasion.
Nearly four decades after the nuclear disaster at Chornobyl, each side has accused the other of shelling the vast Zaporizhzhia site, triggering fears of a nuclear disaster and calls for the establishment of a safety zone around the plant.
By the end of this year, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, hopes to establish such a security zone.
