The head of the IAEA may come to Moscow before the end of this year

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi may come to Russia in the second half of December, Mikhail Ulyanov, permanent representative of the Russian Federation to international organizations in Vienna, said on the Rossiya-24 TV channel.

“Grossi is planned to visit Moscow either next week or after the Christmas holidays, where the conversation with him will be continued by the Russian side in an interdepartmental format, because the issue concerns both the National Guard, and the Ministry of Defense, and Rosatom, and the Foreign Ministry too,” he said. he (cit. according to RIA Novosti).

December 2 Grossi informed that negotiations are underway to arrange a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. At the end of November, the head of the IAEA announced that he plans to visit Ukraine and Russia again in order to ensure the safety of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

Earlier today, Advisor to the General Director of Rosenergoatom Concern Renat Karchaa informedthat an agent of the Ukrainian military was identified at the Zaporozhye NPP, who was at the power plant as a worker of the repair team. According to Karchai, the main task of the Ukrainian agent was covert filming of the station’s security systems.

Russia has controlled the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant since the end of February. In early October, after the Zaporozhye region became part of Russia, Putin instructed to take the plant facilities into federal ownership and create the Zaporozhye NPP Federal State Unitary Enterprise to ensure the safety of nuclear facilities.