On Friday, Belarus presented a plan to construct a second nuclear power plant in the nation that would provide electricity to the areas of Ukraine that Russian forces now control. President Vladimir Putin seemed to openly endorse the intentions when President Aliaksandr Lukashenka brought them up during a meeting at the Kremlin.
According to Lukashenka, the facility may be utilized to serve Russian-controlled districts like Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, and Donetsk if necessary. Although only possessing a portion of the four regions, Russia declared their annexation in September 2022, calling them new territories.
2020 saw the opening of Belarus’ first nuclear power station in Astravets, a mere 40 kilometers from the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, amid protests and anxiety in neighboring Lithuania. With a $10 billion (€8.5 billion) loan from Moscow, Rosatom, the Russian state atomic energy enterprise, constructed the Astravets plant.
During the discussion on Friday, Putin did not say if Russia would finance Lukashenka’s second plant proposal. The proposal was criticized by Belarus’ opposition leader in exile, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who claimed it put “all of Europe at risk.
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