Ukraine accused of targeting possible route of nuclear inspectors

Christina Macpherson

Sep 1

Zelensky cannot risk experts assessing the damage and announcing the cause?

Rt.com, 30 Aug 22, Kiev's forces have hit the Zaporozhye plant's resort house where the delegation could stay, a local council member has claimed.

Ukrainian forces are shelling a route that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspection mission could take to reach the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant this week, local authorities claimed on Tuesday.

Zaporozhye Region council member Vladimir Rogov told RIA Novosti that "Ukrainian nationalists are targeting locations that could be visited by the IAEA mission in Energodar," where the plant is located. He added that "[Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky's regime also started a military operation in the south of the country," which raises concerns for the safety of the IAEA mission.

........................On Monday, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi announced that an expert group would visit the NPP this week to assess the damage sustained by the plant and check the safety and security systems. Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant has been under Russian control since March.

Moscow has repeatedly accused Ukrainian forces of attacking the plant, while warning that the shelling could trigger a disaster that would eclipse the Chernobyl incident. Kiev insists, however, that Russian forces are shelling the site while stationing military hardware there.

On Sunday night, Ukrainian forces shelled Energodar, the city where the plant is located, local officials said. They claimed that the attack, which injured nine people and deliberately hit a number of residential houses, was meant to torpedo the upcoming IAEA mission. "This provocation by Kiev-controlled militants is aimed at derailing the visit of the IAEA chief to the Zaporozhye NPP," they said at the time.......... https://www.rt.com/russia/561775-ukraine-shelling-un-iaea-zaporozhye-nuclear/

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