A mission from the International Atomic Energy Agency (Aiea) will arrive at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant by the end of this week.
This was announced by the director general of the same Aiea, Rafael Grossi
"The day has arrived - wrote Grossi on Twitter -. The Support and Assistance Mission in Zaporizhzhya (Isamz) is coming.
We must protect the safety of the largest nuclear plant in the 'Ukraine and Europe ".
Grossi said he was "proud to lead this mission, which will arrive at the Zaporizhzhia (Znpp) nuclear power plant later this week," and posted a photo of the mission's 13-person group wearing an IAEA uniform.
The situation in the Ukrainian central of Zaporizhzhia, in the hands of the Russian invasion forces, and for days at the center of tensions between Moscow and Kiev.
"The Kiev regime is carrying out nuclear terrorism on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant"
, said yesterday the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Minister, Maria Zakharova, specifying that nuclear terrorism "can be done not only by those who possess nuclear weapons or dirty bombs. but also in the way we see now ".
The spokeswoman stressed that Russia "hopes that the visit of the IAEA inspectors to the
nuclear power plant will finally take place, despite the destructive influence of Kiev".
Meanwhile, the cross-accusations continue regarding military attacks at risk around the plant.
A head of the Russian-controlled administration, Vladimir Rogov, wrote on Telegram that
Ukrainian troops bombed residential neighborhoods in the city of Energodar, in the Zaporozhzhia region for about an hour
.
"Explosions are heard. Rockets are hitting the multi-apartment complexes of the city, where the Zaporozhizhia nuclear power plant is located," he said, while other pro-Russian authorities say an apartment building and cars parked nearby caught fire afterwards. the bombings.
And several people were taken to the hospital.
For his part, Oleksandr Starukh, head of the regional military administration of Zaporizhzhia, said that
in the ulltime 24 hours there were more than 200 air strikes in the city of Orichiv,
where injuries were recorded.
Unian reports it.
"The central area of the city was the most affected - he added - and the center is on fire. The units of the state emergency service have carried out more than 18 missions and are
trying to put out fires in private buildings".
Loud explosions and gunshots were also heard in Melitopol, temporarily occupied by Russian forces.
This was reported by Mayor Ivan Fedorov.
"At this moment, we hear the shots and explosions of the enemy in the northern part
of Melitopol, near the vocational school no.
24. They are so loud that they can even be heard in the neighboring villages of Tambovka and Myrne, "she wrote.