Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of trying to hinder the IAEA mission at the nuclear power plant A Russian off-road armored vehicle is parked outside the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant during the visit of the IAEA expert mission in the course of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia on the outskirts of Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, September 1, 2022. (Photo: REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko) Ukrainian and Russian agencies continue to accuse each other of trying to hinder the International Atomic Energy Agency’s mission to safeguard the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. “The Russian military lies, manipulates and misrepresents the reality of the Zaporizhia NPP by only disseminating information about the IAEA mission visit that it could benefit from,” Ukrainian nuclear power supplier Energoatom said on Friday. He also accused the Russians of trying to prevent the International Atomic Energy Agency mission from learning the facts on the ground.” Energoatom also said: “Military trucks, deployed in the turbine halls of power plants, failing to comply with all fire safety, were presented to IAEA experts as chemical defense force teams. The Russian army tries to hide all the violations of nuclear and radiological safety created by it”. “At the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant only operational personnel were allowed to work, while the presence of people on the routes of the members of the delegation of the IAEA was significantly limited,” Energoatom said. “It is clear that under such conditions it will be difficult for the IAEA to make an impartial assessment of the situation in ZNPP.” For their part, pro-Russian officials in the occupied zone blame the Ukrainians for preventing Alexander Volga, head of the Enerhodar military-civilian administration, said on Friday that “the shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not stop, but its intensity significantly decreased,” and that technicians continued to work on the restoration damaged power lines “as a result of the massive shelling of Enerhodar from the Ukrainian side.” Volga said the IAEA team is still enters the plant “received the relevant documents on the nuclear power plant, as well as a map of the bombing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.” Most of the IAEA mission left the plant after a several-hour visit on Thursday, but a small team remains. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi promised that the agency would have a continued presence at the plant.