Balitsky: IAEA has recorded in the protocols the facts of attacks on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant

The mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reflected in the protocol all the objects shown to it, and also recorded all the facts of the shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, the head of the pro-Russian military-civilian administration (VGA) of the Zaporozhye region Yevgeny Balitsky said on the air of Rossiya 24.

In his opinion, the delegation’s specialists had no questions left regarding the work of ZNPP. “They have all the information on safety, they have no questions left about the operation of the station, the maintenance of the station is at the proper level, the level of personnel does not raise questions for them,” said Balitsky (quote on TASS).

Mission of the IAEA arrived to the territory of the Zaporozhye NPP the day before, on September 1, from the city of Zaporozhye controlled by Ukraine. The experts inspected the territory of the station, accompanied by representatives of the Russian “Rosatom” and employees of the station. The specialists were also shown parts of the facility that had suffered from shelling by the Ukrainian military. IAEA Director Rafael Grossi left station on the same day, leaving 8 experts and four escorts on it, said Alexander Volga, head of the military-civilian administration (MCA) of Energodar.

Based on the results of the initial inspection of Grossi informedthat in a few hours he managed to collect enough important information and identify “key things”. The head of the organization also said that the physical integrity of the ZNPP was violated several times, but so far he cannot say whether this happened by accident or intentionally.

Grossi noted that the purpose of the mission is to prevent a nuclear accident. Among the experts who went to the station, there are no inspectors from Russia, Great Britain and the USA.