The general director of International Atomic Energy Agency meets this Tuesday in Saint Petersburg with Putin
The Ukrainian authorities have accused Russia on Tuesday morning of have launched several bombardments on the city of Zaporizhia, reaching critical infrastructure objects.
This has been detailed in his Telegram by the leader of the Zaporizhia region, Alexander Starukadding that information on the destruction and casualties is being collected.
“The occupant attacked the regional center with rockets. Infrastructure objects have become the targets of the enemy. Information about the destruction and casualties is being collected,” Starukh said in a message.
During the day on Monday, Russia has launched dozens of missiles at various points in Ukraine, specifically at civilian points, killing at least 14 people and injuring 97 others. In the last hours, Russia has intensified its attacks on several cities, including kyiv, but also Lviv, Zaporizhia, or Kharkov, in response to what Russian President Vladimir Putin called a “terrorist attack” in connection with the destruction on Saturday of the Kerch Bridge, which connects Russia with the Crimean peninsula.
Grossi meets with Putin after Russian appropriation of the Zaporizhia plant
On the other hand, the general director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, meets this Tuesday in Saint Petersburg with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to talk on the future of the Ukrainian plant in Zaporizhia, that the Kremlin seized by law a week ago.
The meeting between Putin and Grossi, who visited Ukraine last week, it was confirmed on Monday at a press conference by Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov.
Grossi reported a few days ago that he intends to hold consultations “with the competent authorities” about Russia’s plans to take ownership of Zaporizhia, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe.
After meeting with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, Grossi stressed that for the IAEA the plant “is a Ukrainian facility” belonging to Energoatom, the Ukrainian Atomic Corporation.
Putin decreed on October 5 the appropriation of the plant and its adjacent facilities, and the creation of a company that guarantees their safety.
In addition, the Russian state company Rosenergoatom created a company to manage its operation and appointed a new director to replace the detained Ihor Muráshov, already released.
The European Union (EU) described “illegal” Putin’s decree, which he ordered to withdraw his troops and return control of the plant to kyiv.
Grossi for weeks insists on the creation of a security zone around the plant, occupied by Russian troops since the beginning of March and subjected to bombardment of which both sides accuse each other.
The UN agency, who highlighted on October 6 that no more explosions had been recorded in the plant since last day 1, warned that the latest Russian bombardments in Zaporizhia could affect the nearby plant.
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The IAEA warned that the plant’s six reactors are deactivated, in what is called a “cold shutdown” after Russian troops completely shut down the plant.
Although they are disabled, reactors still need electricity to maintain vital functions nuclear safety, such as the cooling of reactors.