Power unit No. 2 of the Zaporozhye NPP in Energodar. File photoSIMFEROPOL, Aug 18Volodymyr Rogov, a member of the main council of the administration of the Zaporozhye region, said that the UN leadership does not want to facilitate the visit of the IAEA inspection to the region, therefore, it invents various «absurd routes». security measures make it possible to facilitate the visit of IAEA staff to the Zaporozhye NPP only through Kyiv. At the same time, Igor Vishnevetsky, Deputy Director of the Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told reporters that it would be unsafe to deliver a mission of IAEA experts to the Zaporozhye NPP through Kyiv, they would have to cross the front line.
The Foreign Ministry pointed to the encouragement by the West of the shelling of the ZNPP by Ukraine «The UN does not want to facilitate the visit of the IAEA, therefore it invents various awkward routes, knowing full well that then there will be a security issue or the IAEA delegation will simply not be allowed in, they say, you see — the line of contact, checkpoints are closed and so on — or they will try to carry out a provocation in the form of shelling, explosions and the like in order to disrupt the visit and blame Russia for this,» Rogov told RIA Novosti. Rogov stressed that the only route where the IAEA inspections are guaranteed safety is through the territory of Russia .The permanent representative of the Russian Federation to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, reported that the IAEA has begun work on sending a second mission to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, but while the agency's director general Rafael Grossi is on vacation, the process is not so active. In a conversation with RIA Novosti, Ulyanov announced Russia's readiness to actively cooperate in the IAEA to organize such a mission. 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. special operations of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine
