He stressed that during the discussion in the UN Security Council on August 11, no one expressed fundamental objections to sending IAEA employees to nuclear power plants.
At the same time, the diplomat did not rule out that difficulties may arise in coordinating organizational modalities.
“Now it is important that the Ukrainian side stop shelling the station and give guarantees for the safety of the participants in this mission.
You can not send an international team under the ongoing artillery fire.
This is the main obstacle,” Ulyanov said in an interview with TASS.
Earlier, the head of the military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region, Evgeny Balitsky, announced his readiness to receive and ensure the safety of UN Secretary General António Guterres and the IAEA mission during the inspection of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
The head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, noted that the organization intends to intensify contacts with Russia, Ukraine and the UN to send a mission to nuclear power plants.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commenting on the results of the August 11 meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation at the nuclear power plant, called on Ukraine not to interfere with the sending of the IAEA mission to the facility.