Cooling pool units at the Zaporozhye NPP in Energodar. File photoUN, Aug 18A delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency cannot visit the Zaporozhye NPP until the Ukrainian side stops shelling the plant, Deputy Director of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Igor Vyshnevetsky said at the NPT Review Conference. — Approx. ed.), the first thing to be done is to stop the shelling of the Zaporizhzhya NPP by the Ukrainian side. A delegation cannot come there while shelling is being carried out from there (from the Ukrainian side. — Approx. ed.), it is dangerous, «said Vishnevetsky.
The Foreign Ministry pointed to the West's encouragement of Ukraine's shelling of Zaporozhye NPP Earlier, Vyshnevetsky announced a close dialogue with the IAEA and the United Nations Secretariat regarding the organization of a trip of agency experts to the Zaporozhye NPP. He also expressed doubt that the UN Security Department would be able to guarantee the safe passage of IAEA employees to the Zaporozhye NPP from the territory controlled by Kyiv, and it was impossible to endanger the lives of agency officials planning to visit the station. According to the diplomat, the Ukrainian side’s proposed entry to the Zaporizhzhya NPP through the front line poses a colossal risk for the international mission in any case. Over the past day, Kyiv twice opened massive fire on the object. According to Volodymyr Rogov, a member of the main council of the administration of the Zaporozhye region, servicemen of the 44th artillery brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine use guided missiles and Western-made shells. The shelling has already damaged the high-voltage line of the Kakhovskaya substation, the personnel had to reduce the power of two power units. in Ukraine
