KYIV, June 15 – Ukrainian personnel of Russian-occupied Zaporizhia NPP cannot independently carry out the transfer of block No. 5 to a cold shutdown, but there is some information that the so-called "plant management" from Rosatom will allow this, President of the state-owned enterprise Energoatom Petro Kotin has said.

"The ZNPP employees can theoretically initiate the switching of power unit No. 5 to a cold shutdown, but physically they cannot do it, because the situation is controlled by the rashists. The cold shutdown is the safest state of operation of the power unit under any conditions," Kotin told reporters during a visit to one of the nuclear power plants on Wednesday.