Zaporozhye NPP in Energodar. File photoUN, Aug 12 IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi promised to intensify discussions with Russia, Ukraine and the UN for a trip of agency experts to the Zaporozhye NPP.»I will intensify my consultations with Ukraine, the Russian Federation, the UN, the Department of Security UN, so that we can carry out the mission that is so needed,» Grossi said at a meeting of the UN Security Council. Ukrainian troops have made several attempts to attack the territory of the nuclear power plant since the beginning of the Russian special operation. Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, said on July 12 that Ukrainian militants had carried out strikes near the ZNPP, a provocation organized by Kyiv's Western curators that endangered millions of Ukrainians. Shelling has increased since August 5. On the night of August 7, Ukrainian troops launched a strike from the Uragan MLRS at the ZNPP, fragments and a rocket engine fell about 400 meters from the station’s operating power unit, the Energodar authorities reported. The Zaporozhye NPP is located on the left bank of the Dnieper near the city of Energodar. This is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe in terms of the number of units and installed capacity. Six power units are installed at the station. ZNPP has been guarded by the Russian military since March. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation emphasized the justification for the Russian military to take under the protection of the power plant from the point of view of preventing leaks of nuclear and radioactive materials. ZNPP proposals
