A team of inspectors from the UN watchdog agency led by Grossi arrived on Thursday to visit the power plant, during which it plans to carry out “security and protection activities”. “It is obvious that the plant and the physical integrity of the plant have been breached several times,” Grossi said after returning from the plant to Ukrainian-controlled territory. The head of the IAEA further stated that part of his organization’s mission will remain at the power plant. Photo gallery (3) IAEA mission in Zaporizhia.
Source: SITA/(AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko “We are not going anywhere. The IAEA is there now, it is in the power plant and will remain there,” Grossi is quoted as saying by the Reuters agency. Some of the experts who visited ZAES together with Grossi on Thursday stayed at the power plant to provided an unbiased, neutral and technical assessment of the situation. Inspectors will remain at the plant “until Sunday or Monday,” Grossi said. United Nations Photo gallery (3) IAEA mission in Zaporizhia.
Source: SITA/(AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko) International experts from the IAEA arrived in Zaporozhye, which is under the control of Ukrainian forces, on Wednesday. team was dressed in blue bulletproof vests and had blue helmets on their heads. Some of the inspectors left the plant together with Grossi after a few hours. Grossi told the Russian media that he saw what he needed in ZAES. Russia occupied the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in the first weeks of the invasion. ZAES has been close to the front line since then, and in recent weeks there has been repeated shelling of its adjacent areas, which Russia and Ukraine blame each other for.