Russia Invites Nuclear Monitors to Visit Shelled Ukrainian Plant
- IAEA still needs permission from Kyiv to visit Zaporizhzhia
- Europe’s biggest atomic power station was damaged last week
A Russian serviceman stands guard outside the second reactor of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in Energodar, Ukraine, on May 1.
Photographer: Andrey Borodulin/AFP/Getty Images
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Russia told diplomats it’s ready to welcome international monitors into Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, whose safety is in doubt after coming under attack last week.
International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors have said there’s a “very real risk of a nuclear disaster” at Europe’s biggest atomic power plant amid fighting in the area. The Zaporizhzhia site, with six reactors worth tens of billions of dollars, has been occupied by Russian forces since March.