He stressed that the Zaporizhia region and the city of Energodar are part of Russia and that the ZNPP belongs to Russia - this is history already "approved and regulated" by the decree of the President of Russia.

Russia ensures nuclear safety at this facility, Karchaa added.

“How will they affect my activities?

No way.

This is an act of powerlessness," TASS quoted him as saying.

On February 7, Rosatom CEO Alexei Likhachev said that Ukraine's sanctions against the state corporation are meaningless and will not have any impact on Russia's nuclear industry.

He also called cooperation with Ukraine in the nuclear sphere impossible under the current Kiev regime.