Russia has requested a meeting of the Security Council for Tuesday, September 6.
The reason is the incessant Ukrainian shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and the reckless provocation of the Kyiv regime, aimed at disrupting the visit of IAEA inspectors to the plant.
Dmitry Polyansky, Deputy Representative of Russia to the UN, stated this.
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) we also propose to hear Rafael Grossi following the results of his team's stay at the ZNPP.
We also expect the participation of UN Secretary General António Guterres,” Polyansky wrote in his Telegram channel.
On September 1, the IAEA mission was shown the territory of the Zaporozhye NPP.
The agency's specialists were shown sections of the station that had been damaged by shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
As RT military correspondent Alexei Repin noted, ZNPP employees assured the IAEA mission that all the containers were intact, and “the sensors for measuring the radioactive background were not damaged and are also in good working order.”
“Today we were able to collect a lot of information.
I saw the key things that I wanted to see,” said the head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi.
He was also given an appeal from the residents of Energodar to the world community in connection with the Ukrainian shelling.
After the initial assessment, part of the delegation of the International Nuclear Energy Agency left the ZNPP territory.
At the same time, some representatives of the IAEA mission will stay at the nuclear power plant until September 3.
The official representative of the UN Secretary General Stefan Dujarric, commenting on the news about the attempt of Ukrainian saboteurs to seize the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, said that the organization is glad that Russia has done what is necessary to protect the IAEA inspectors.
“We are glad that Russia did what was necessary to ensure the safety of our inspectors,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense expressed bewilderment due to the lack of reaction from the West and the UN secretariat to the shelling that Energodar and Zaporozhye NPP were subjected to on the day of the visit of the mission of the International Nuclear Energy Agency.
The department emphasized that they had no doubts that the actions taken by Ukrainian sabotage groups, along with artillery shelling of the ZNPP, were prepared in advance by the Zelensky regime.
The Russian military believes that it was the completion of preparations for the operation to seize the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant on the day the IAEA experts arrived that caused the cancellation of Rafael Grossi's visit to the plant on August 31, instead of which he had an "unscheduled" meeting with Vladimir Zelensky.
“Obviously, if the Kyiv regime’s operation to seize the station was successful, the head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, and the mission’s experts would become a human shield for Ukrainian saboteurs to prevent any actions to destroy them by units of the Russian Armed Forces,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.
According to the department, the IAEA delegation would then simply fix the new status quo, according to which “Zaporozhye NPP came under the complete control of Kyiv”, and calls would be heard from Washington and European capitals for Moscow to provide a “demilitarized zone” around the nuclear power plant, where stay IAEA observers under the protection of the Ukrainian military.
“This provocation was thwarted by the effective actions of the units of the Russian armed forces and the National Guard.
At present, the IAEA mission headed by Grossi has arrived at the nuclear power plant and has begun scheduled work with the Russian side fully ensuring its safety.
The position of Grossi and his team deserves respect, who nevertheless left for the station, despite the provocations of Kyiv and the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, ”concluded the Russian Ministry of Defense.
As previously reported, on the morning of September 1, two sabotage groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with a total number of up to 60 people made an attempt to land on the coast of the Kakhovka reservoir, three kilometers from the nuclear power plant.
It was stopped by units of the Russian Guard and the Russian Armed Forces.
An attempt to land Ukrainian troops near the village of Vodiane was also suppressed.
Self-propelled barges with the Ukrainian military were sunk.