🔷 Minister of Energy of Ukraine Herman Halushchenko met with Deputy Director-General for Energy at the European Commission Massimo Garribba. President of SE "NNEGC "Energoatom" Petro Kotin attended the event as well.

The parties paid special attention to the situation at the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP and the ways in which the European Commission can facilitate the return of the plant to the control of its legitimate operator – Energoatom.

The representatives of the Ukrainian delegation noted that our country had shown other Eastern European states an example of overcoming dependence on russian nuclear fuel for VVER-1000 and VVER-440 reactors.

🔷 The Ukrainian delegation also held a meeting with Canadian representatives – Ambassador to Austria and Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Troy Lulashnyk and President of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Rumina Velshi.

Rumina Velshi assured that Canada would help Ukraine restart Zaporizhzhia NPP after its deoccupation.

Energoatom’s President Petro Kotin noted that Ukrainian NPPs are completing repair work in order to operate all units located on the Ukraine-controlled territory in the autumn-winter period.

During the meeting, the importance of implementing the Peace Formula proposed by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in cooperation with the IAEA was also highlighted.

🔷 As a reminder, the Ukrainian delegation includes President of SE "NNEGC "Energoatom" Petro Kotin, Acting Chairman of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine Oleh Korikov, and First Deputy Chairman of the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management Andriy Tymchuk.

Among the priority topics of the session are the activities of the IAEA in the field of nuclear and physical security as well as increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the Agency's guarantees. In particular, a substantive discussion of the issues of nuclear safety and guarantees in Ukraine is planned.

For our country, participation in the event is crucial in order to once again draw the attention of the international community to the state of nuclear and radiation safety in Ukraine during the war, in particular to the situation at the ZNPP.