Ukraine conducts exercises with deployment of checkpoints to check radiation
This was announced by the Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko on the air of the telethon "United News", an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
"In the coming days, we will conduct appropriate exercises with road closures and deployment of sanitary checkpoints where we will check radiation. All the equipment we have for measuring radiation is calibrated and ready to go. But we want to group all the services once again so that we can respond to any challenges," the Interior Minister said.
At the same time, he noted that residents of Zaporizhzhia and settlements near the plant should remain calm. The minister assured that all Ukrainian services, the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Health, and local authorities are ready "for any emergency, including those related to a possible radiation leak from the Zaporizhzhia plant."
The Interior Minister informed that from today, the relevant headquarters have been set up, with power engineers, State Emergency Service employees, police and doctors in attendance, "so that the rules of behavior in the event of an emergency can be developed and clearly communicated to Ukrainians."
At the same time, he assured that those who want to leave will be provided with transportation. "We have had this transport ready for a long time, because we hold these events near nuclear power plants all the time, we just don't always advertise it. But now we will work quite openly, in close cooperation with the population, and we will inform about all our steps that we will take in this area," Klymenko said, referring to the area within a radius of 50 km around the ZNPP.
The Minister clarified that if we take the right and left banks of the Dnipro River, we are talking about about half a million people.
As reported, President Volodymyr Zelensky instructed Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko to take the necessary measures and to educate the public about the risks at Zaporizhzhia NPP.
