“Specialists have begun to restore the Zaporozhye NPP, eliminating all the damage that was inflicted on the nuclear plant as a result of numerous shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine during this year,” he told RIA Novosti.

According to Rogov, bringing the nuclear power plant to its original form will make it possible to restart the power units and resume electricity generation when the risk of repeated shelling can be avoided.

Earlier it became known that the consultations of the International Atomic Energy Agency with Russia and Ukraine, aimed at creating a protective zone around the Zaporozhye NPP, will continue in the near future.

At the same time, Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, noted that he considers direct negotiations between Moscow, Kyiv and the IAEA on the protection zone around the ZNPP impossible.