Experts to assess damage from shelling: IAEA mission sent to Zaporozhye NPP

The mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency will arrive at the Zaporozhye NPP this week.

This was announced by IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi.

“The IAEA support and assistance mission is already on its way to the Zaporozhye NPP.

I am proud to be leading this mission, which will arrive at ZNPP later this week,” he wrote on social networks.

According to him, it is necessary to ensure the safety of "the largest nuclear facility in Europe."

At the same time, the IAEA press service noted that the mission will have to perform a number of tasks at the ZNPP, including assessing the physical damage caused to the plant, determining the operability of the security and security systems of the facility, as well as taking urgent measures to ensure NPP safety guarantees.

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As Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the day before, it was Moscow that made diplomatic efforts to ensure that the IAEA inspection took place.

“I want to urge everyone not to react to the information and to those stuffing that is now coming from the Westerners about the fact that they allegedly persuaded (I think this is how all phrases will be built) the Russian side to the inspection that they allegedly used all their diplomatic art , persuading us to such an inspection.

This is not true, this is a lie, ”she emphasized, speaking in the Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov program on the Russia 1 TV channel.

Zakharova also noted that Kyiv is no longer using the nuclear power plant as an instrument of blackmail, but as an instrument of terrorism: “What the Kyiv regime is doing around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is nuclear terrorism.”

“Zaporozhye NPP is the main target of Zelensky’s terrorists”

The latest massive shelling by the Ukrainian military of residential areas of Energodar and the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is aimed at preventing the arrival of the IAEA mission, Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the We Are Together with Russia movement, chairman of the branch of the Russian Historical Society of the Zaporozhye region, said in an interview with RT.

“What is happening now, these massive shellings, is an attempt by the Zelensky regime to disrupt the upcoming visit of the IAEA delegation, which has already been announced, and, accordingly, revenge on the local residents for their desire to convey the truth about what is happening,” Rogov said.

He said that tens of thousands of local residents signed an open letter to the IAEA leadership, which clearly indicates who and from where fires at the city.

According to him, the number of shellings of the ZNPP, which are carried out by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from various weapons, including Western-made ones, has gone off scale in recent days.

“Zaporozhye NPP is the main target of Zelensky’s terrorists in the literal sense, and they themselves are engaged in nuclear terrorism and do not hide it.

They do this with the encouragement of the West, primarily the United States and Britain.

Official London, Washington and Warsaw should be held accountable as accomplices in crimes (of the Kiev regime. -

) in relation to at least the ZNPP, ”Rogov emphasized.

On the eve of the Ukrainian military once again fired at Energodar.

Rogov noted that the fire was fired from Nikopol aimed at residential areas of the city, as a result of which seven people were injured.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine used large-caliber shells intended for American M777 howitzers.

According to Rogov, the Armed Forces of Ukraine made an attempt to attack the ZNPP with a kamikaze drone.

The purpose of the Ukrainian drone was a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, as evidenced by the flight path of the loitering munition, he said.

Rogov added that the drone was shot down by Russian servicemen.

During the detonation, the station did not receive any infrastructural damage.

The liquidation of the flight personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The Russian military almost completely destroyed the flight crew of the former Ukrainian Air Force, a military-diplomatic source told RIA Novosti.

“The entire airlift crew of the former Air Force of Ukraine — MiG-29, Su-27 and Su-25 aircraft — has been virtually eliminated by the effective actions of the Russian Aerospace Forces and air defense systems,” the agency quoted him as saying.

He also noted that the decision of the Kyiv regime to use former cadets of the Kharkov Military Institute who did not complete their studies led to the loss of the remnants of aviation.

According to the source, attempts by Western countries to recruit pilots of Soviet aircraft under contract in Poland and other Eastern European states failed.