Aboutneither should assess the condition of the station and the risks to its safety. On the day of arrival, the Ministry of Defense reported on the shelling of nuclear power plants by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the landing of Ukrainian troops The mission of the IAEA experts, which is designed to assess the safety of the Zaporozhye NPP, has arrived at the station, correspondents of RIA Novosti and Interfax report. A motorcade of nine cars entered the station at about 14:15 Moscow time, Interfax writes. “RIA Novosti” publishes a video of this moment. It shows white cars marked UN (UN, IAEA created in the organization’s system), as well as escort vehicles entering the territory of the station. The journey from Kiev to Energodar, where the NPP is located, took experts almost two days. On Tuesday, August 30, before going to the station, the IAEA staff held a meeting in Kiev with the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. After that, they proceeded to the demarcation line, where they got in line from others entering the part of Zaporozhye occupied by Russian forces. The head of the local administration, Yevgeny Balitsky, stated that he was asked to speed up the process of passing international experts through the checkpoint, but he refused.
“When I was asked to speed up the process, I said that I was not going to speed up this process, let them stand in line… Let them stand in line and talk to people, people will tell them everything, tell them the truth, we have nothing to hide,” he told the day before on the TV channel “Russia-24”.
Around noon on September 1, it became known that members of the delegation were detained at a checkpoint in the territory controlled by Ukraine. The head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, who is part of the delegation, personally entered into negotiations with the Ukrainian military. The head of the civil-military administration of the Zaporozhye region, Yevgeny Balitsky, clarified that part of the column was able to pass into the neutral zone, but some were detained at a checkpoint. However, in the end, all employees of the Atomic Energy Agency were allowed to pass.
The program of the IAEA mission at the Zaporozhye NPP is designed for one day, Balitsky said.
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“The program of the visit is designed for one day. They have to see the operation of the station in one day. Those elements that they will say, it is possible to look at in the process. So far stated [mission objective]— «get acquainted with the work of the station». For us, this is a vague concept,” he said. At the same time, the head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, who was also part of the delegation, said that the organization hopes to create a permanent mission at the NPP. “We have a very important task ahead of us to assess the real situation there and help stabilize it,” the head of the agency emphasized.
The Russian Defense Ministry claims that the Zaporozhye NPP has been systematically shelled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine since mid-July. Strikes on the Energodar are carried out from multiple rocket launchers, barrel artillery and using unmanned aerial vehicles. Moscow has repeatedly denied accusations of the deployment of heavy weapons by Russian forces on the territory of the NPP.
Over the past two days, there have been several attacks on the Zaporozhye NPP and the city of Energodar. The day before, the local administration announced the detention of a group of saboteurs who were preparing a terrorist attack. Small arms, improvised explosive devices and grenade launchers were seized from the detainees. “According to preliminary data, the terrorist attack was being prepared during the visit of the IAEA delegation to show the uncontrollability of the situation and that Russia cannot ensure security,” said Vladimir Rogov, a member of the regional CAA.
In addition, on the eve of the building of the administration of the city of Energodar, a kamikaze drone was struck.
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On the morning of September 1, the Ministry of Defense reported an attempt by the Ukrainian landing force to seize the Zaporozhye NPP, as well as the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The ministry considered this a provocation aimed at disrupting the visit of the IAEA delegation. According to the latest information, the battle with the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is still going on, it is being led by 12 Ukrainian military against the Russian military. Also, the Ministry of Defense reported the sinking of two barges with paratroopers.
Zaporozhye NPP is the largest nuclear power plant by installed capacity and the third largest in the world, located on the banks of the Dnieper River in the city of Energodar. Six of the 15 operating nuclear power units of Ukraine are located on it. Since the end of February, the NPP has been under the control of Russian forces, but formally remains under the control of Energoatom.
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