The Russians today prevented an IEA mission from accessing the plant. Fighting continues in Russian-occupied Kherson.

(LaPresse) – Zelensky raises the alarm “Russia has brought Ukraine and all Europeans one step closer to a radioactive disaster,” the president said after yesterday’s ” shutdown of the Moscow-owned Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.”

“We are doing everything to avoid an emergency scenario, but it does not depend only on our country,” and “international pressure is needed to force” the Russians “to immediately withdraw from the territory of the plant,” Zelensnky continued as Kiev reconnected the reactors to the power grid. The Russians today prevented an IEA mission from accessing the plant. Fighting continues in Russian-occupied Kherson.

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