The corresponding comment by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, was published on the website of the Foreign Ministry.
The Foreign Ministry urged the US and the EU to abandon the irresponsible games and intrigues around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, as well as to immediately influence the Kyiv authorities so that they stop shelling the plant and the territories near it.
“Further connivance on the part of the Western curators of Ukraine is simply criminal, including in relation to their own citizens,” the ministry said.
Zakharova stressed that “statements” “in the wrong place” stamped by the EU for the sake of imaginary political points are perceived in Kyiv as a go-ahead to create obstacles for the IAEA mission.
The Foreign Ministry noted that Moscow "strongly condemns attempts to obstruct this mission."
“In close cooperation with the agency and its leadership, we will do everything necessary for the IAEA specialists to be at the station and give a truthful assessment of the destructive actions of the Ukrainian side,” the ministry said.
Earlier, Zakharova said that the Western community is doing everything possible to prevent the experts of the IAEA mission from entering the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.