Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered this Saturday to help his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, try to resolve the crisis at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia, occupied by Russian troops.
“President Erdogan said that Turkey can play a facilitating role in the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, as it did in the grain business,” whose exports were blocked by the war, the Turkish presidency said in a statement quoted by the news agency. France Press news. AFP).
The Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, has been occupied since March by Russian troops in southern Ukraine.
Its inspection on Thursday by an IAEA team, with the presence of its director, Rafael Grossi, was highly anticipated, after weeks of bombing that raised fears of a nuclear catastrophe.
Moscow and kyiv mutually accuse each other of such attacks on the plant, where some elements of the IAEA mission are still located until “Sunday or Monday”, as the director of that specialized UN agency indicated on Thursday.
Source: Observadora
