Commenting on the position of UN Secretary General António Guterres regarding the Zaporizhzhya NPP, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova believes that Guterres’s position still raises questions, since he did not show any signs of responsibility. happened”, noting that “either cannot or does not want to recognize the reality”.

In statements following the UN Security Council review of the nuclear power plant situation, she stated that “the international mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which was coordinated and equipped in almost every respect, failed early in the summer due to obstruction of its work by the Secretary General and the General UN secretariat. She stressed that “there is no certainty that this will not happen again when Moscow returns to prepare for the trip of the Director General of the Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, to the Zaporozhye plant.”

Zakharova also indicated that “her country urges Ukraine not to interfere in the dispatch of an International Atomic Energy Agency mission to the station.”

Guterres called for a cessation of hostilities around Zaporozhye, saying that “any attack on nuclear plants is an act of suicide.”