The IAEA director will travel to kyiv and Moscow at the end of the week

Oct. 4 () –

The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, will travel at the end of the week to the capital of Ukraine, kyiv, and Russia, Moscow, to continue consultations on the implementation of a protection zone around the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.

This has been confirmed by the IAEA in a statement in which it has not delved into details beyond the fact that the highest representative of the organization will first go to the Ukrainian capital and later move to Moscow.

In said letter, the IAEA has also referred to the recent release of the director of the Zaporizhia nuclear plant, Igor Murashov, arrested by the Russian authorities on Saturday near the plant and released on Monday.

The agency has celebrated the release of Murashov, who is now estimated to be safe with his family and who has left his post at the head of the nuclear facilities. The IAEA does not know at the moment who will replace him.

The IAEA sent a delegation to Zaporizhia with the aim of analyzing the situation at the nuclear power plant, the scene of clashes between Russia and Ukraine almost from the first stages of the war.

At the end, the IAEA mission issued a report in which it urged the parties to guarantee safety at the nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, by implementing a protection zone at the site.