The Russian Foreign Ministry said that “Kyiv cannot guarantee the safe passage of IAEA employees from its territory to the Zaporozhye NPP.”

Earlier in the day, Volodymyr Rogov, a member of the Zaporizhia Regional Administration Council, said that “the forces of the Kyiv regime bombed containers with nuclear waste at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.” Rogov pointed out that “one of the missiles fell just 10 meters from the nuclear waste barrels, and since the site itself is open, the arrival of a missile or missile will lead to a security breach at the storage sites, and the amount of nuclear waste will spread in the environment, and it will happen disaster, and it will be a dirty bomb.” Pointing out that “the second weakness of the nuclear power plant is the cooling systems, which the Kyiv regime is also constantly bombing.”

Russia called on the International Atomic Energy Organization and the UN to condemn the Kyiv regime’s ongoing bombing of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine.