Interior Minister: Units responding to threats related to nuclear power plants have everything they need
Units within Ukraine's Interior Ministry that respond to threats related to the operation of nuclear power plants have everything they need, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said, stressing that permanent response posts are in place, along with mobile ones that are deployed whenever information is received about an emergency situation.
"As for the risks. For example, if there is information about a release from Zaporizhia plant, or about some specific actions of the personnel there who are controlled by Russia, we deploy our forces accordingly," the minister told journalists in Kyiv, responding to a question from Interfax-Ukraine about risks and threats related to nuclear power plants amid Russia's full-scale aggression and Ukraine's readiness to respond to them.
According to the minister, dedicated units within the Interior Ministry system have been created to respond to such situations.
"They are equipped with everything necessary – from dosimeters to protective gear, and we set up the appropriate posts," the minister said.
Klymenko said that some of the posts operate on a permanent basis, while others are mobile and are deployed when information is received about an emergency.
"We constantly conduct training for such units on radiological situations," the minister said.
Klymenko summed up: "I can say that everything happening on the territory of our state is monitored by these units."
Separately, the interior minister said that information about such situations is checked immediately, and data are made public through the State Emergency Service or the Hydrometeorological Center – both on radiation levels and on possible risks to citizens.
"Very often such information appears and panic may arise - as a rule, we act immediately," he said.
As reported by the agency's correspondent, on Monday in the renovated National Chornobyl Museum, the interior minister honored veterans, current employees who were liquidators, those who are currently guarding and defending the exclusion zone, builders, and museum staff, presenting 40 awards from the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the Interior Ministry.
Speaking about the museum's renovation, the minister said: "We updated almost the entire exhibition... and, of course, linked this museum to current events."
Klymenko said Chornobyl nuclear power plant had been seized by Russian troops in 2022. The exhibition includes a section devoted to the occupation of the plant and another related to the strike by a Russian drone on the confinement structure over Unit 4 of Chornobyl nuclear power plant in 2025.
The interior minister noted that the museum exhibits were updated "with a creative concept for all generations, so that this museum would be understandable both to the liquidators and to our children."
The minister added that liquidators had been invited to assess the creative concepts.
"They agreed and were present at every stage of approving one concept or another," the interior minister said.
On April 26, 2026, the 40th anniversary of the explosion at Unit 4 of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine and the world honored the memory of those who took part in liquidation of the disaster.
