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After the publication of the report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (AEIA) on the situation at the Zaporijia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, Russia wants “clarifications”. “There is a need to obtain additional clarifications, because the report contains a number of question marks”, declared the head of Russian diplomacy Sergei Lavrov.
Russia has requested “clarifications” from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on its report on the situation at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. “There is a need to obtain additional clarifications, because the report contains a number of question marks (…) We have requested these clarifications from the Director General of the IAEA,” Sergei Lavrov told the Russian agency Interfax.
In a report published Tuesday after an inspection visit to the Zaporijjia power plant, the IAEA called for the establishment of a “safety zone” to prevent a nuclear accident, judging the current situation “untenable”. Occupied since March by Russian forces, this plant, the largest in Europe, has been bombed several times in recent weeks. Moscow and kyiv accuse each other of these strikes.
“Pressure” from the West?
On Tuesday, the Russian ambassador to the UN had notably deplored that the IAEA did not designate the forces of kyiv as being those which bombed the Zaporijia power station. For her part, the spokeswoman for Russian diplomacy Maria Zakharova on Wednesday denounced “pressure” from the West on the IAEA.
“It is obvious that the West has always put pressure (on the IAEA, editor’s note) and that it does not stop doing it,” she said, quoted by the public agency Ria. – Novosti. The director of Russian nuclear giant Rosatom, Alexei Likhachev, said on Wednesday that Moscow would “do its best to ensure the safe operation of the plant in exclusive contact with the IAEA”.