Zaporizhzhia is located on the outskirts of Enerhodar and is occupied by Russia.Andrey Borodulin/AFP via Getty Images

Trump eyes Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant. Problem: It’s occupied by Russia. – POLITICO

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KYIV — U.S. President Donald Trump’s transactional approach to bringing peace to Ukraine has found a new craving: the largest nuclear power plant in Europe.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Trump discussed the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) during a call on Wednesday. Trump offered to help solve the ongoing dispute over Russians illegally controlling the plant, Zelenskyy said.

“President Trump asked me [about the plant], I told him that if it is not Ukrainian, it will not work for anyone. This is illegal. [But] if the Americans are thinking about how to find a way out and want to take it away from the Russians and modernize it — this is a different issue, an open issue. We can talk about it,” Zelenskyy said at a press conference Thursday in Oslo.