Energoatom said that the head of the IAEA was not invited to the captured station
Ukraine did not invite the Director General of the IAEA to the Russian-occupied Zaporozhye NPP. This was announced on June 7 at Energoatom. – The Ukrainian side did not invite Grossi to visit the ZNPP and had previously refused him such a visit, emphasizing that a visit to the plant would be possible only when our country was returned control over it,” says the Telegram channel of the state enterprise. Energoatom accused Rafael Mariano Grossi of lying and noted that his deputy is a Russian citizen. – As you know, almost a quarter of the IAEA leadership – about 100 people – are Russians. And even Grossi's own deputy, head of the Department of Nuclear Energy Mikhail Chudakov, is also a Russian citizen, the report said. Energoatom said that Grossi's previous visits to Ukraine “did not bring any benefit.” The enterprise explained the loss of connection between the ZNPP and the IAEA by the fact that the Russian invaders turned off the Ukrainian Vodafone in Energodar. The IAEA has a data transmission contract with him. The information is accumulated on the server and will be transmitted when the operator is turned on. On June 6, the IAEA Director General reported that the Ukrainian government last week called on him to lead a mission to the Zaporizhzhya NPP and that the Ukrainian regulator informed that he had lost control over the facility's nuclear material. After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Rafael Mariano Grossi was at the South Ukrainian nuclear power plant in the Mykolaiv region and at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after it was liberated from Russian occupiers. Also, the Director General of the IAEA met at least twice with the head of Rosatom Alexei Likhachev about the situation at the captured Zaporozhye NPP. We' re working to send an expert mission to #Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant. The biggest NPP in Europe is currently disconnected from @IAEAorg safeguards communications systems. #Ukraine requested us, we will go there. pic.twitter.com/gFiBN2LdBq — Rafael MarianoGrossi (@rafaelmgrossi) June 6, 2022
