“Until the end of the conflict and the restoration of stable conditions, urgent interim measures are needed to prevent a nuclear accident from being caused by physical damage caused by military instruments.” After the mission in Zaporizhia, the International Atomic Energy Agency denounced a ” unsustainable” situation and puts on paper the risks of a catastrophe at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, which has been at the center of clashes in Ukraine for weeks, which “it can have serious repercussions in the country and beyond its borders.”
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For this reason, UN experts are calling for the “urgent creation of a nuclear safe zone”. The situation is “unprecedented,” the IAEA warns in a 52-page report, highlighting all the critical points that emerged during the visit, which ended a few hours ago, while there were new powerful explosions in Zaporizhia, for which Moscow and Kyiv continue fighting renewing allegations each other. “It is the first time that a military conflict has taken place between the structures” of a power plant of this size, underlines the document prepared by the technicians, who “observed damage in different areas caused by the reported events” in reference to the conflict, “with some damage in the vicinity of the reactor buildings”. The experts, the text says, “observed that some repair work had already been carried out or was in progress for part of the damage and noted that further work was required to remedy all the damage caused”. The IAEA, which left two technicians on guard to monitor developments at the plant, said the current situation was “clearly untenable” even for the plant’s Ukrainian workers, who are “working in extremely stressful conditions under the control of the armed forces. Russian “.
Nuclear terror, the escape of Energodar residents
Until the Director-General of the body, Rafael Grossi, intervened at the UN Security Council, the appeal to end the raids fell on deaf ears. Russians and Ukrainians once again blamed each other for carrying out the bombing that caused a massive explosion just after noon in Energodar, the town where the power plant is located, causing an immediate disruption of electricity and water supplies to residents. The pro-Russians then reported damage to a fuel oil tank that would have ended up in the canal that supplies water for the plant’s operations. Complaints that not even the IAEA was able to fully clarify, but was only able to verify the effects of the raids. After all, emphasized the head of Ukraine’s Energoatom nuclear agency, Petro Kotin, the mission has a mandate limitation where it cannot expect Moscow to end its “occupation,” which is “the root of the problem.”
Kyiv: Army repels Russian attacks in Donetsk
For this reason, he added, demilitarization would require more peacekeeping intervention involving UN peacekeeping forces. While all eyes are on Zaporizhia, the conflict continues. After the symbolic success of stopping the referendum planned in Kherson on joining Russia, the Ukrainian armed forces have demanded further advance of the counteroffensive, which is also confirmed by the Pentagon. For presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych, “since the beginning of the liberation operation of southern Ukraine, the army has resumed several settlements on the west bank of the Dnieper” and in the coming weeks will be able to encircle the enemy on the opposite bank of the river, beginning to push him back. A bet that comes with claims of progress on the Eastern Front, while a Kyiv adviser said he awaited the announcement of “great news from President Zelenskyy about the counter-offensive in the Kharkiv region.” Meanwhile, the resistance continues its struggle. In Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov near Mariupol, the Russian commander of the “occupied” city was seriously injured in broad daylight and in the center by a car bomb.