Ulyanov: shelling of ZNPP by Kyiv is the main obstacle to the visit of the IAEA
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The shelling of the Zaporozhye NPP by the Ukrainian army is the main obstacle to the visit of the delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Russia’s permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov.
In an interview with TASS, the diplomat called on Kyiv to stop attacks on the ZNPP and give security guarantees to the IAEA delegation. He noted that during the discussion of the visit in the UN Security Council on August 11, none of the parties spoke out against the visit, but difficulties may arise in its practical implementation.
“It is important that the Ukrainian side stop shelling the station and give guarantees for the safety of the participants in this mission,” the diplomat said, noting the impossibility of a visit under conditions of shelling, which are the main obstacle.
Ulyanov also said that the UN did not give a clear explanation about what was the reason for the decision to block the June visit of the IAEA delegation to ZNPP.
In March, the Russian Armed Forces established control over the ZNPP. On Thursday, the head of the military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region, Yevhen Balitsky, said that Ukrainian nationalists continue shelling the ZNPP, at least 3 Ukrainian rockets fell in the area of the storage of radioactive isotopes. At the same time, according to Balitsky, despite the fall of missiles, the radioactive background in the ZNPP area does not exceed the normative indicators, and no radioactive contamination is noted. Balitsky also accused Ukraine of trying to achieve the effect of a “dirty bomb”, that is, radioactive emissions, by strikes at the ZNPP. According to him, Ukrainian neo-Nazis are deliberately trying to get into the storage facility for nuclear waste at the ZNPP, and their successful provocation of a radioactive release will make the surrounding area uninhabitable.
Earlier, the official representative of the UN Secretary General, Stephane Dujarric, said that the IAEA delegation should visit the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) as soon as possible, and is already discussing the details of the visit with all interested parties, and the UN is ready to support this initiative “by any possible means.” Dujarric said that the importance of visits to ZNPP by IAEA experts is increasing every day.
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