At the time of the explosion of electrical towers on the border with Crimea, which was carried out last year by extremists who participated in the blockade of the peninsula, Ukraine was one step away from a nuclear disaster. The ex-Minister of Transport of Ukraine and the former head of the Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Evgeniy Chervonenko, stated this on the NewsOne TV channel.
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According to him, in the event of a repetition of the Chernobyl disaster, the independence of Ukraine could be forgotten.
“Well, they demolished it... and I know what many people don’t know - one of the nuclear directors told me: Ukraine stood on the edge of the second Chernobyl. If it weren’t for the skill of the person who was on duty, and who took out the fuel rods in time, these radioactive rods, then there would have been a second Chernobyl.
The fact is that, having cut off the route to Crimea, the Ukrainian energy system received a terrible overload. And, if a disaster had happened at the South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant, the independence of Ukraine, and all of us, could have been forgotten forever. With any prices and tariffs for gas, tablets, and everything,” Chervonenko said on the anniversary of the explosion of power poles on the border with Crimea.