Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Main Council of the civil-military administration, noted that the region expects an announcement from the IAEA about the upcoming date of the visit and is ready to ensure the arrival of the mission
TASS, August 2. The authorities of the liberated territory of the Zaporozhye region are ready to provide the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), whose mission is expected to visit the region, with documented evidence of the shelling of the Zaporozhye NPP in Energodar by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was stated to TASS by Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Main Council of the Military-Civil Administration (CAA) of the Zaporozhye region.
"We are very glad that Mr. [Raphael] Grossi (Director General of the IAEA - approx. TASS), despite the pressure, <...> declares the readiness of the IAEA delegation to visit the Zaporozhye NPP. <...> First of all, we intend to provide all documented and recorded confirming facts of terrorist attacks on the NPP by the armed formations controlled by Zelensky," Rogov said.
He noted that the region expects an announcement from the IAEA about the upcoming date of the visit and is ready to ensure the arrival of the mission. "We will expect the announcement of the date when the IAEA will be ready to send a mission to the NPP. We offer the two routes that we have today: through the Crimea and through the Rostov region. And we will be glad to welcome you hospitably, to present everything that is required from our side. As for the nuclear power plant itself, this is the prerogative of the IAEA, they themselves must check everything that has been going on there over the past 8 years," Rogov said.
On Monday, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, speaking at the conference of the countries participating in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, said that the IAEA delegation is ready to visit the Zaporozhye NPP.
On Saturday night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck with the help of a UAV at a humanitarian convoy delivering cargo to Energodar, as a result, humanitarian mission vehicles were destroyed, three apartment buildings, a grocery store, a hotel building and a hostel of the NPP were damaged. On Thursday night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched an attack using an unmanned aerial vehicle on a village in Energodar, Zaporozhye region, where employees of the Zaporozhye NPP live, as a result of the attack, no one was killed, a residential building was damaged.
Earlier it was reported that on July 20, three Ukrainian kamikaze drones struck the territory of the Zaporozhye NPP. The reactor part of the Zaporozhye NPP is not damaged, the radiation background is normal. As a result of the APU attacks on the Zaporozhye NPP, 11 employees were injured, four of them are in serious condition. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said at a meeting of the Board of Governors on June 6 that the agency was working to create conditions for sending an expert mission to the NPP. The Ukrainian company Energoatom opposed the visit of the IAEA experts to the NPP, noting that it had not invited Grossi to the NPP and had already refused him such a visit.
Zaporozhye NPP is the largest in Europe, it produced a quarter of all electricity in Ukraine, its capacity is about 6 thousand megawatts, it consists of six power units. Since 1996, the Zaporizhia NPP has been a separate subdivision of the national nuclear power generating company Energoatom, controlled by Ukraine. In March 2022, the facility was taken under control by Russian forces. Now the NPP is operating at 70% of full capacity, since there is an overabundance of electricity produced in the liberated territory of the Zaporozhye region, in the future it is planned to arrange its supply to the Crimea.
