The American, French, German and British leaders on Sunday called for “restraint” around the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia, the largest in Europe, occupied by the Russian army.
Presidents Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron as well as Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who spoke on the phone, also asked for the sending “faston the spot of a mission of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), according to a joint press release.
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The resurgence of fighting around this nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine – the two belligerents mutually rejecting responsibility for the attacks – has raised the specter of a disaster worse than that of Chernobyl.
On Friday, the French presidency said that the Russian head of state Vladimir Putin had accepted that IAEA inspectors make an inspection visit to the plant.
During their talks on Sunday, the four Western leaders also “agreed that support for Ukraine in its defense against Russian aggression would be maintained”.