According to the Russian government, it supports a protection zone around the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine. Work will be done to implement IAEA chief Rafael Grossi’s initiative, it said on Wednesday. A Ukrainian drone recently crashed near the power plant.
Europe’s largest nuclear power plant has come under repeated fire and had to be supplied with emergency power by diesel generators on several occasions. It has now been put into cold mode, the reactors have been shut down and the plant is externally powered.
To avert the danger of a nuclear disaster, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been trying for months to establish a protection zone around the occupied power plant. Boss Rafael Grossi has already been there twice – first in September last year, now at the end of March. On Wednesday it was announced that the Russian government had agreed to such a protection zone. After a joint meeting in Kaliningrad, it was said that Moscow was ready to work on Grossi’s initiative.
In Ukraine, the IAEA chief spoke with President Volodymyr Zelensky last week. In the talks he pointed to the urgency of finding a solution for the nuclear power plant. Shortly before Grossi’s visit, a Ukrainian drone crashed near the nuclear power plant, according to Russian sources. It came from Polish production and weighed more than two kilograms, the RIA Novosti news agency reported. It was not stated when the drone would have crashed exactly.
Source: Krone
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