Rafael Grossi to visit Russia to discuss nuclear plant

• IAEA chief Rafael Grossi will visit Moscow on Thursday.
• He’ll discuss nuclear security in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
• Both Russia and Ukraine have laid blame for the assault on the other.

IAEA chief Rafael Grossi will visit Moscow on Thursday to talk about nuclear security at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power facility in southern Ukraine, according to confirmation from the UN nuclear watchdog.

“We can confirm that Director General Grossi will be in Moscow tomorrow as part of his ongoing high-level consultations aimed at agreeing and implementing a nuclear safety and security zone around the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) as soon as possible,” the IAEA said in a statement on Wednesday.

Concerns about a nuclear catastrophe have been raised because of the plant’s frequent shelling attacks in Russian-occupied area. Both Russia and Ukraine have laid blame for the assault on the other.

According to Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, there are no arrangements for Grossi to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin while in the country.

The number of missile attacks in the Zaporizhzhia region has grown recently. Oleksandr Starukh, the chairman of the Zaporizhzhia Region Military Administration, stated during a briefing earlier in the week that the current energy situation is challenging.

All six units at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant are out of operation. Starukh said that “they are in partially cold and partially hot shutdown mode.”

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