MOSCOW, 4 Oct – Novosti. Director General of the Zaporizhzhya NPP Igor Murashov admitted that he forbade the team from publishing an appeal to the UN and the IAEA demanding to stop the shelling, he told about this in an exclusive story on the Rossiya 24 TV channel.
As reported in the story, Murashov was expelled to the territory controlled by Ukraine on charges of “carrying out activities aimed at discrediting the authorities of the Russian Federation.”
Murashov said that he did not allow the station staff to publish a prepared appeal to the UN and the IAEA demanding to stop the shelling. “I did not coordinate the text of this appeal with Kiev , because it could hurt the state interests of Ukraine,” he said.
Zaporozhye NPP is located on the left bank of the Dnieper near the city of Energodar . This is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe in terms of the number of units and installed capacity – the plant has six power units with a capacity of 1 gigawatt each. Since March, it has been under the protection of the Russian military. The Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized that this step was justified in order to avoid leakage of nuclear and radioactive materials. The Ukrainian military continues to regularly shell Enerhodar and the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant adjacent to the city.
In early September, an IAEA mission headed by the agency’s director general Rafael Grossi arrived at the ZNPP . The head of the delegation of ” Rosatom ” and employees of the Zaporizhzhya NPP led the delegation of the IAEA through its territory and showed the sections of the station that had been damaged during the shelling of Ukrainian troops. Two IAEA employees remained at ZNPP on a permanent basis. As a result of the visit of the mission, the IAEA published a report in which it confirmed the fact of shelling of the ZNPP.
