Ukraine Mission to Zaporizhia to avoid nuclear disaster
War in Ukraine "Zaporijia is the hostage of Russia"
The visit of the inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Organization to the Zaporizhia plant is leaving images that,
if not tragic, would be comical
.
Such is the impunity with which the Russian regime acts that it does not matter if these surprised experts find themselves with Russian military vehicles and ammunition inside the turbine halls of the atomic facility after weeks of having publicly denied it.
They have not even bothered to hide them
.
In the same visit, the inspectors tried to contrast who has attacked the plant, something that Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of.
One of the missiles that has remained stuck in the ground without exploding makes it clear, by the angle of penetration into the ground,
that it has been launched from the side occupied by the Russians
, but a man in a blue suit, Moscow's envoy to the central, insists before the cameras and with great fuss to convince the experts that, in reality,
the missile has fallen on the other side but has remained that way due to inertia
.
Yesterday, the inspectors took good notes in their notes and took their photos oblivious to such a surreal explanation.
As yesterday the same bombings continued in the vicinity of the plant,
which Russian propaganda insists on attributing to Ukraine
with explanations such as that of the man in the blue suit, the workers at the plant turned off their number five reactor, that is, one of the two that were still working.
Now only one of the six available reactors operates.
Since the members of the IAEA left Kiev for Zaporizhia,
they have been subjected to the manual that Moscow uses in this type of visit
that we already saw in Bucha: first the widely documented crimes are denied, then an independent investigation is demanded and, when this is approved, , Russia derails it.
Yesterday this mission was about to do so when the route to the plant, already in the occupied zone, was bombed, which resulted in a delay of three hours.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, director of the IAEA, together with his team, decided to go ahead.
Already at the plant,
Grossi assured that a delegation of five people would be permanently
in the facilities, in addition to assuring that the integrity of the plant had been "violated" on several occasions.
The Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, reacted angrily to the first conclusions of the visit.
For the Ukrainian president, "the key to what should happen
is the demilitarization of the territory of the plant
. This is exactly the objective of the Ukrainian and international efforts," he warned upon learning that the Russians did not intend to leave the plant.
In addition, Zelensky reacted to a promise that has not been fulfilled: "When I met with Mr. Grossi and the IAEA in Kiev, we agreed that the mission should be accompanied by international journalists to document what is happening there. Unfortunately, the Russians did not allow enter these independent journalists but a group of their propagandists.
The IAEA has failed independent journalism
."
As satellite images have indicated, the Russians have repeatedly used the plant not only as a warehouse for war material, but also as a missile launcher, but yesterday the Russian Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, denied the evidence: "
I declare that we do not have heavy weapons on the territory of the nuclear power plant
and in the surrounding areas. I hope that the IAEA commission will be personally convinced of this", words that Shoigu pronounced while the IAEA inspectors passed by the military vehicles with the Z painted on its sides parked inside the plant.
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