The head of the IAEA entered into negotiations with the Ukrainian military on the way to the ZNPP
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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, entered into negotiations with the Ukrainian military for the passage of the agency’s mission to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, transmits Reuters agency.
The representative of the IAEA told the agency that the delegation was delayed for three hours in the territory controlled by Ukraine, intends to reach the ZNPP on Thursday.
Earlier today, it became known that IAEA inspectors crossed the line of contact and were in the Russian-controlled territory of the Zaporozhye region. They must inspect the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, which is located near Energodar, and also assess the damage caused to it during the hostilities.
The IAEA mission, consisting of 14 specialists headed by the director of the agency Rafael Grossi, arrived in Kyiv the day before. According to The Wall Street Journal, the trip will last from August 31 to September 3. Grossi also said that he plans to create a permanent mission of observers. Earlier, Mikhail Ulyanov, permanent representative of the Russian Federation to international organizations in Vienna, spoke about the possibility of leaving part of the specialists on the territory of the ZNPP on a permanent basis.
Grossi noted that the mission of the IAEA trip was to prevent a nuclear accident. Among the experts who went to the station, there are no inspectors from Russia, Ukraine and the United States. On August 31, a delegation of IAEA experts arrived in Zaporozhye.
During a special military operation in Ukraine, the Russian military took control of part of the Zaporozhye region, including Energodar, where the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, the ZNPP, is located. Subsequently, the station and the territory adjacent to it were repeatedly shelled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has repeatedly emphasized that it does not use the facility for military purposes and does not place weapons on its territory. The discussion of the visit of the IAEA mission to the station has been going on since the beginning of August, when the shelling of the nuclear power plant became more frequent.
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