Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of intimidating the UN inspection mission at the Zaporizhzhia NPP and allowing only pro-Kremlin journalists to enter the Russian-occupied plant, The Moscow Times reports.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr ZelenskyiPhoto: Press Office of the President of Ukraine / Zuma Press / Profimedia
  • “When we met with Mr. Grossi and members of the mission in Kyiv, we agreed that the mission would be accompanied by journalists from the Ukrainian and international press. Independent journalists. For the world to see the truth. To see what’s really going on. Unfortunately, this was not done.
  • Although it was promised. Unfortunately, the occupiers did not let the journalists in, but organized a group of their propagandists. “Unfortunately, IAEA representatives did not protect representatives of independent media,” Zelenskyy said.

However, the Kyiv leader hopes that the IAEA experts will nevertheless come to unbiased conclusions regarding the existing risks at the Zaporizhzhia NPP, reports “Ukrainian Pravda”.

Advisor to the president Mykhailo Podoliak called the two-hour visit of the International Atomic Energy Agency “strange”, given the complexity of the inspection.

Director General Rafael Grossi said the IAEA would seek to establish a “permanent presence” at the plant “to prevent a nuclear accident and preserve Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.”

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