During a phone call, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu discussed with UN Secretary-General António Guterres the conditions for the safe operation of the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) and the work of the mission to establish the facts of the case at the preliminary hearing. Detention center in Yelenovka. This has been reported TASS.
“On August 15, 2022, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, had telephone conversations with UN Secretary-General António Guterres to discuss the conditions for safe operation of the Zaporozhye NPP,” the military department said. .
The Defense Ministry noted that Shoigu and Guterres also referred to the work of the fact-finding mission regarding the incident that occurred in the pre-trial detention center in the village of Yelenovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
Previously at the UN said About the possibility of visiting the IAEA Zaporozhye NPP.
Before that, Mikhail Ulyanov, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to International Organizations in Vienna, declarationHe said that the statement from 42 countries about the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, where the Russian Federation is required to return the ZNPP under Ukrainian control, is biased and can only encourage Kiev to further bomb the nuclear power plant. According to him, the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant mission of the IAEA will be resolved in the near future.