Ukraine can support the proposal of IAEA Director Rafael Grossi to create a protection zone around the Zaporozhye NPP, if we are talking about demilitarization. This was stated by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in his traditional evening address.

“As for the proposal of the IAEA Director General Grossi to create a protection zone at the station, we need to look at the specific content of such an instrument: what exactly can be protection?

If the content of this proposal is to demilitarize the territory of the nuclear power plant - and this is logical, because it was the Russian military presence that brought the Zaporozhye plant to the brink of a radiation catastrophe - then we can support such a demilitarized protection zone,"

He added that the world not only deserves, but needs the IAEA representatives to force Russia to demilitarize the territory of the nuclear power plant and return full control over it to Ukraine..

According to Zelensky, modern international organizations need a broader mandate for their actions. He is sure that if Russia has brought the world to the brink of a radiation catastrophe, then the world must have the appropriate opportunities to put Russia in conditions when the terrorist state will be forced to stop terror.

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As reported, at a meeting of the UN Security Council, Rafael Grossi suggested creating a so-called "

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In turn, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for the creation of a demilitarized perimeter around the station.