KYIV: Ukraine's state nuclear chief said on Monday (Sep 5) it was vital that a mission by UN inspectors to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant led to the end of Russia's occupation of the facility and called for new missions to the site, including by UN peacekeepers. The International Atomic Energy Agency is dr
KYIV: Ukraine's state nuclear chief said on Monday it was vital that a mission by UN inspectors to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant led to the end of Russia's occupation of the facility and called for new missions to the site, including by UN peacekeepers.
Two IAEA experts are now set to stay on indefinitely at the facility in southern Ukraine - Europe's largest nuclear plant - which was captured by Russian troops at the beginning of March shortly after their invasion. "We need results from this mission actually. These results should the whole situation: De-occupation. If not, then we must have some kind of viable results," he said.
"This is a peculiar situation. All the experts and Grossi himself understand that ... what is needed to be done is the de-occupation. Still they can't directly propose this because of the limitation of the mandate," he said.A few hours after Kotin spoke in his office in Kyiv, Energoatom said the plant's sixth and last functioning reactor had been disconnected from its grid due to what it said was Russian shelling. There was no immediate response from Russia.
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