THE Russia asked for “clarifications” from him International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for his report on the power plant Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Ukrainethe Russian Foreign Minister said today, Sergey Lavrov.
“There is a need to provide additional clarifications because the report contains a number of points that raise questions (…) We have asked the IAEA director general for clarifications,” Lavrov told Russian news agency Interfax.
In the report he gave yesterday, Tuesday, to the public after the inspection visit he made to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, the IAEA calls for an end to the bombing near the nuclear plant and to immediately create a “safe zone” around it to prevent a nuclear accident, deeming the current situation “unsustainable”.
The Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, which has been under the control of Russian forces since March but is still managed by its staff of Ukrainians, has been repeatedly bombed in recent weeks. As APE-MPE reminds, Moscow and Kyiv blame each other for these strikes.
Yesterday the Russian ambassador to the UN had mainly expressed his regret that the IAEA did not mention that the forces of Kiev are the ones who are bombing the Zaporizhia station.
Also, the representative of Russian diplomacy, Maria Zakharova, today denounced Western “pressure” on the IAEA, noting that Russia provided the international organization with full information regarding the origin of the bombings, and that she wonders why it did not name Ukraine in its report as the img of the attacks on the station.
“It is obvious that the West is constantly putting pressure (on the IAEA) and does not stop doing it,” the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said, according to her statements cited by the Russian news agency Ria-Novosti.
Zakharova also said that Ukraine was coordinating its attacks on the station with the help of the US and other Western countries.
Ukraine denies carrying out attacks on the Zaporizhia station and has accused Moscow of storing heavy weapons there, a claim Russia has denied.
At the same time, the director of the Russian nuclear giant Rosatom, Alexei Likachev, also said today that Moscow will do “everything it can to ensure the operation of the plant in complete safety, being exclusively in contact with the IAEA”.
Source: News Beast

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