“Zaporozhye NPP, located at the forefront, needs a protective zone more than ever.

I still hope that it will be agreed upon and implemented in the near future, although I would naturally prefer to speed up the implementation of the plan, ”RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

Grossi noted that he intends to make progress in this direction during consultations in Kyiv and Moscow.

Earlier, Advisor to the Director General of the Rosenergoatom Concern, Renat Karchaa, said that the shelling of the ZNPP by the Ukrainian army had stopped due to the likelihood of retaliatory strikes on the energy infrastructure of Ukraine.