UN will support any IAEA mission from Kyiv to Zaporizhzhia NPP - Guterres

The UN Secretariat is ready to support any IAEA mission from Kyiv to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said this on Twitter, Ukrinform reports.

"I remain gravely concerned about the situation in and around the Nuclear Power Plant in Zaporizhzhia. […] The UN Secretariat is ready to support any IAEA mission from Kyiv to the Plant," he wrote.

Guterres also said that "any further escalation of the situation could lead to self-destruction."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier said at a meeting of the UN Security Council that the IAEA mission should take permanent control of the situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant as soon as possible.

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. Russian forces captured the station on March 4. Since then, the invaders have been placing military equipment and ammunition at the plant, shelling the surrounding area.

The European Union condemned Russia's military activities around the Zaporizhzhia NPP and called on the aggressor state to immediately transfer control over the plant to Ukraine.