“Until the critical phase has passed, the line of separation of troops passes simply in contact proximity to the nuclear power plant.
The IAEA inspectors are talking about this, they hear explosions, they hear the echoes of the cannonade, ”RIA Novosti reports his words.
At the same time, Likhachev noted that in recent weeks, arrivals at the station had not been recorded, although there were attempts by drones to enter the territory of the station.
They were stopped by the security service, he added.
Earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that negotiations on the creation of a protective zone around the Zaporizhzhya NPP are not going well.
According to him, Kyiv, apparently, is playing for time.
Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, said that for the fifth month now Ukraine has not given an answer to the draft declaration submitted to it on the creation of a protective zone around the ZNPP.