The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, located 650 kms southeast of Kyiv along the Dnipro River, is "under Russian jurisdiction" and will not be handed over to Ukraine, the US, or international organizations, Russia's foreign ministry said.
The ministry said that joint operation of the facility with another state "is not acceptable" as "it would be impossible to properly ensure nuclear and physical nuclear safety and settle issues of civil liability for nuclear damage." It added that a potential cooperation with an international organization to run the plant "seems absurd."
