The head of the IAEA Grossi called for an end to the shelling of the ZNPP

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi called for an “immediate halt” to the shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

“News from our team [экспертов МАГАТЭ на ЗАЭС] yesterday and this morning extremely disturbing. There were explosions at the site of this large nuclear power plant, which is completely unacceptable. Whoever is behind this should stop immediately. As I have said many times, you are playing with fire,” Grossi said (quoted from “RIA News”).

Formerly Advisor to the General Director of Rosenergoatom Concern Renat Karchaa informed TASS that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are shelling the Zaporozhye NPP, about 15 arrivals were recorded, including from the special building No. 2, where fresh nuclear fuel is stored. In addition, there are hits in the area of ​​the dry storage site for spent nuclear fuel (ISSF). Karchaa added that now reinforcing structures are being erected at the Zaporizhzhya NPP, the concrete wall was cut with fragments.

Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov published in his Telegram channel, a video of the shelling. He wrote that the nuclear threat does not come from Russia, but from the “criminal Kyiv regime.”

During a special operation in Ukraine, the Russian military took control of a part of the Zaporozhye region, including the city of Energodar, which houses the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, the ZNPP. The ZNPP external power supply was repeatedly cut off due to shelling, in which Russia and Ukraine blamed each other.

The deputy head of the Russian delegation at a meeting of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, Konstantin Vorontsov, said that Russia excludes the demilitarization of the ZNPP and the perimeter around it. The Foreign Ministry urged to quickly agree on a security zone around the ZNPP. In early November, the authorities of the Zaporozhye region announced the beginning of the transition of the ZNPP under the jurisdiction of Rosenergoatom.

This week, the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) adopted a resolution calling on Russia to abandon its “unfounded claims” to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and withdraw its military and civilian personnel from the plant, handing over control over it to the Ukrainian side. In addition, the resolution states that the checks carried out by the organization did not reveal any traces of the development by Ukraine of the so-called. “dirty bomb”, and the corresponding Russian claims are called unfounded. The Russian permanent mission to international organizations in Vienna called this resolution “another step towards the politicization of the work of the IAEA.”