Russian forces shelling pre-agreed route of IAEA mission to ZNPP

Oleksandr Starukh, the head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, wrote on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

"The Russians are shelling the pre-agreed route of the IAEA mission from Zaporizhzhia to the ZNPP. The UN advance team cannot continue the movement due to security reasons," he wrote.

Starukh noted that Ukraine continues to make efforts to organize safe access of the international IAEA mission to the ZNPP.

“We demand that the Russian Federation stop the provocations and provide unhindered access to the Ukrainian nuclear facility for the IAEA,” he wrote.

As Ukrinform reported, on August 31, a mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived in Zaporizhzhia to visit the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in the temporarily occupied Enerhodar.

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