Negotiations with Kiev and Moscow to create a safe zone around the constantly bombed Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant are ongoing, while International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director Rafael Grossi is warning of possible consequences, according to CNN.

• “We cannot continue to rely on luck to avoid a nuclear accident,” Grossi told CNN.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency noted that negotiations are ongoing, but the station is “a zone of active hostilities, so it is not so easy to reach agreed parameters.” He said that on Tuesday he spoke with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba, and on Wednesday he met with the Russian delegation in Turkey to discuss the safety of the nuclear power plant.

• “I have had consultations with both sides. I would not agree with the assessment that we are not making progress, I think we are. Of course, we are talking about something very difficult. This is war and the protection of the zone that I propose is right on the front lines line, on the line where both opponents collide.
• But we are moving forward, and I believe and hope that traumatic episodes like last weekend can paradoxically help us move forward in the sense that people need to realize that we cannot continue to rely on luck to avoid a nuclear accident.” , – added the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Who is “playing with fire”?

Asked who was “playing with fire,” as he said Sunday, after the powerful explosions that rocked the nuclear plant, Grossi said it was “very difficult to determine from inside the plant who is doing it,” but “our main goal is to stop this case, and not to enter into the attribution game.”

The director of the IAEA has been warning for several months about the risk of a potentially catastrophic accident due to repeated explosions near the nuclear power plant, which Russia and Ukraine blame each other for.

After the factory was bombed again on Sunday, the Kremlin said that Ukraine was responsible and called on international forces to ensure that Kyiv stops the attacks.

Before the Russian invasion, the Zaporizhzhia power plant, the largest in Europe, provided about a fifth of the electricity in Ukraine.