Zaporozhye NPPMOSCOW, Mar 13 The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has announced that the Russian side denied Ukraine's allegations about Russia's alleged plans to take full control of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. According to the statement of the organization, Ukraine informed the IAEA that Russia allegedly plans to «take full and permanent control» of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. «This was later refuted by the Russian Federation» , — the international organization says in a statement. It is noted that the head of the Ukrainian Energoatom, Petr Kotin, in a letter to the IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, said that the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant «remains under the control of the commander of the Russian armed forces.» Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized.
