“We believe that this IAEA visit should not be delayed, it would be good to hold it in late August - early September, but not everything depends on us,” he 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.