he deserves everything he gets :P
I think this is the first explicit mention of power plants as a bargaining chip for anyone.
The concept may have been in place behind the scenes in that it has always been presumed that the Kursk trust was pointed at a nuclear power plant about 30 more miles north then the farthest Ukraine penetrated.
Maybe somehow that was to be a trade-off to the power plant down south that Russia now has. That particular power plant is one of the largest in Europe as a whole.
It would seem to optimally, from a Russia perspective, their best maneuver is to dismantle an entirely and ship the uranium out. It’s not supplying Russia. And it would increase natural gas demand through Europe.