Russia Denies That It Plans to Vacate Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant

Russia Denies That It Plans to Vacate Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant outside Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on Oct. 14, 2022. Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters
Adam Morrow
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Pro-Moscow officials have dismissed claims by Kyiv and Ukrainian media outlets that Russian forces and personnel are planning to vacate the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP).

“Kyiv-controlled media outlets have been actively spreading fake reports that Russia plans to pull out of [the city of] Enerhodar and leave the ZNPP,” Enerhodar’s Moscow-appointed military-civilian administration said in a statement on Nov. 28.