Attacks on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (ZNPP), Europe’s largest facility of its kind, are “unacceptable,” Rafael Grossi, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has stated.

His remark came shortly after Russian authorities in the eponymous region reported multiple drone strikes on the ZNPP, blaming the Ukrainian military. Moscow has repeatedly accused Kiev of targeting the facility in the past.

The power plant was brought under Russian control in March 2022, shortly after which the region’s residents voted in a referendum to join Russia, which Ukraine has dismissed as a sham. Around the same time, the IAEA deployed a monitoring mission to the ZNPP, which has remained in-situ to date.

Speaking to reporters at Khrabrovo Airport in Russia’s Kaliningrad Region on Friday, Grossi insisted that “any attack on any nuclear power plant, in particular [the] Zaporozhye [NPP], is absolutely unacceptable.”

He stopped short of apportioning the blame for such incidents to either Ukraine or Russia, noting that the IAEA’s mandate is purely technical in nature.

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https://www.rt.com/russia/618748-iaea-head-zaporozhye-nuclear-power-plant-attacks/