UN inspectors are on route to the Ukrainian nuclear power facility in Zaporizhzhia that is under Russian occupation.
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s director general, Rafael Grossi, said on Twitter that his team will arrive “later this week.”
The largest nuclear plant in Europe and Ukraine must be kept safe and secure, he stressed.
Concerns have been raised about fighting near the facility, which was seized in March. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has warned of a nuclear disaster.
UN inspectors are on route to the Ukrainian nuclear power facility in Zaporizhzhia that is under Russian occupation.
Ukraine claims that Russia is attacking the area surrounding the facility while keeping it prisoner and stockpiling weapons there.
Moscow charges Ukraine of shooting carelessly on the facilities.
The IAEA mission to Zaporizhzhia was rejected by Ukraine because authorities thought it would validate the Russian occupation.
The puppet ruler of Russia in the area, Yevgeny Balitsky, promised to “produce proof that Ukraine is acting like a nuclear terrorist state.”
As for the IAEA’s coming, we don’t anticipate tremendous outcomes. We are aware that the Americans control all of the European institutions, he said.
Concerns have been raised about fighting near the facility, which was seized in March. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has warned of a nuclear disaster.
According to the Kremlin mouthpiece RIA news agency, Ukraine allegedly punctured the ceiling of the structure housing the reactor fuel at the facility.
It published images showing a hole in the ceiling of what is allegedly Special Building No. 1, which houses the new nuclear fuel for reactors.
Pro-Russian authorities said that a 155mm artillery round fired by the Ukrainian army from Nikopol struck the Zaporizhzhia factory.
The images weren’t immediately independently verified.