The report mentions shelling attacks on the ZNPP 52 times, but does not say who is responsible (Ukrainian and Western media have previously reported that the plant was being shelled by Russian forces - the same Russian forces which have controlled the facility since March. Russia has blamed the Ukrainian military).
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a much-anticipated report on the security situation at Ukraine's nuclear facilities.
The 52-page document summarizes "preliminary nuclear safety and security findings" from last week's expert mission to the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant and missions to the Chernobyl NPP from earlier this year, and provides an update on the country's other nuclear plants.
The IAEA mission to the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant did nothing to improve the situation around the power plant, head of Zaporozhye Region military-civilian administration Yevgeny Balitsky said on Russian TV Wednesday.
ReplyDelete"We realize clearly today that, just as we expected, there was no benefit from this mission to us, everyone living on the planet; it’s a completely impotent body, just like the rest of the European politics," he said.