“NPP personnel continue to service nuclear power plants in the normal mode and monitor the radioactive situation,” he added.
According to him, the protection of the facility is jointly carried out by Russian paratroopers and Ukrainian servicemen of the NPP security battalion.
He added that this is "a guarantee that nationalist formations or other terrorist organizations will not be able to take advantage of the current situation in the country to organize a nuclear provocation."
In the Chernobyl zone, an excess of control levels of radiation was recorded.
Earlier, a message appeared on the page of the State Inspectorate for Nuclear Regulation of Ukraine on Facebook that the data of the automated radiation monitoring system of the exclusion zone, which are available online, allegedly “indicate that the control levels of the dose of gamma radiation (red dots) were exceeded by a significant amount” .
On Thursday, February 24, units of the Russian Airborne Forces took full control of the territory in the area of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.