The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) aspires to “avoid a nuclear accident” at the Zaporizhia power plant (southern Ukraine), occupied by Russian troops, assured its director general, Rafaelo Grossi, who is leading the mission. to the area. on Wednesday.
“It is a mission that seeks to avoid a nuclear accident and preserve this important nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe,” Rafaelo Grossi told reporters in the city of Zaporizhia, some 50 kilometers from the Ave nuclear power plant.
The IAEA inspection mission headed by Rafaelo Grossi, received the previous day by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in Kyiv, left the capital at dawn on Wednesday. According to the Russian agency TASS, citing a pro-Russian official, the delegation should arrive at the plant on Thursday.
security guarantees
“We have a very, very important task to do there, to assess the real situation, to help stabilize the situation as much as possible,” Rafaelo Grossi said in Kyiv in the morning. “We are going to spend a few days there.”
He said he had received security guarantees from the Russian and Ukrainian authorities.
“These operations are very complex: we are going to a war zone, we are going to occupied territory,” the official stressed.
Kyiv and Moscow have been accusing each other for weeks of several bombings that targeted the site of the power plant.
Source: BFM TV
