Quotes
American ownership of those plants would be the best protection for that infrastructure and support for Ukrainian energy infrastructure,
Waltz said after a call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday – the first since last month's heated Oval Office exchange between Trump, JD Vance and Zelensky
I believe that the station will not work under occupation. I believe that the station can be restored to operation."
Zelensky said at a news conferenceI had a positive, very substantive, and frank conversation with President of the United States Donald Trump. I thanked him for a good and productive start to the work of the Ukrainian and American teams in Jeddah on March 11—this meeting of the teams significantly helped in moving toward ending the war. We agreed that Ukraine and the United States should continue working together to achieve a real end to the war and lasting peace. We believe that together with America, with President Trump, and under American leadership, lasting peace can be achieved this year."
Zelensky posted on X on WednesdayUnfortunately, there have been hits, especially on civilian infrastructure,
Zelensky wroteCertainly, we have immense technical expertise in the United States to run those plants. I don't think that requires boots on the ground,
While discussing how the U.S. could run a Ukrainian nuclear plant, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Fox News ... Wright said.jpg)
He said that the United States could be very helpful in running those plants with its US electricity and utility expertise,
said White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt
If the Americans want to take the station from the Russians and they want to invest there and modernise it, that is a completely different issue,
he said
I don’t want there to be a different understanding of what the parties will agree on,
Zelensky saidThe west believed that nonsense and that’s great,
said Mikhail Zvinchuk, a popular Russian military blogger and propagandist, during an online stream
There are going to be proximity discussions meaning one group’s going to be in this room, one group in this room and they’ll sit and talk go back and forth sort of like shuttle diplomacy in a hotel,
said General Keith Kellogg, the Trump envoy to UkraineWe didn’t talk about aid, actually, we didn’t talk about aid at all,
Trump saidI don’t think that in this situation [the Russians] will resort to deliberately damaging the station’s parts, because the station is a subject of negotiations and haggling,
a former engineer who fled the plant in 2023, but still maintains ties with former colleagues, told Al Jazeera
The better its condition is the higher is the price they will get when they’re swapping it for something – if they’re swapping it,
the engineer said on condition of anonymityThey get crazy kickbacks. This is a team of marauders,
Olga Kosharna, a nuclear safety expert, told Al Jazeera in 2021Of course, there is such danger,
Ihor Romanenko, who served as deputy head of Ukraine’s general staff of armed forces, told Al JazeeraFor three months, I couldn’t get up, I could barely eat,
one of the workers, 69-year-old Volodymyr Robovyk, told Al Jazeera earlier this month, describing the health consequences he sufferedWe will not discuss it. We have 15 nuclear power units in operation today. This all belongs to our state,
Zelenskyy told a news conference in Oslo, where he held talks with Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr StoreWe need funds for artillery shells and would really appreciate Europe’s support with at least €5bn ($5.42bn) as soon as possible,
Zelenskyy told themWe’re doing very well with regard to Ukraine and Russia. And one of the things we are doing is signing a deal very shortly with respect to rare earths with Ukraine,
he said during an event at the White HouseThere is not enough water in the cooling pond. The only way it can be refilled is to build a new pumping station,
says Shaun Burnie, a nuclear expert with Greenpeace