During yesterday's day, when the IAEA mission arrived with an inspection at the Zaporozhye NPP, the Russians did not stop shelling the city of Energodar. All attention was focused on what was happening at the station, while the locals were under heavy enemy artillery fire.. How it was? Mayor Dmitry Orlov on his Telegram channel, on condition of anonymity, published a letter from one of the local residents, who told how the city spent September 1 this year.

" Yesterday was hell. Silence today. Even at night. The last shot was fired around 10pm.. We still have to count and mourn all the dead, stretch the film and insert plywood into all the broken windows, wave after everyone who left yesterday and will leave in the coming days... We hope that yesterday's nightmare will not happen again.

They were shooting from 5 in the morning from different guns from different places. Plus a thunderstorm right over the city. First they beat the station, the industrial zone, garages and gardens.

The forest is no more. He was burned from all sides. At 6 o'clock the thunderstorm stopped, but they began to hit the city. Husband on the phone with his employees. Everyone writes who sees and hears and how he understands. They were going to work, but their husband stopped them until the circumstances were clarified.

At 10 o'clock it was a little quiet and some people ran in all directions. Some with dogs on the street, some on business (although what could be the case in this hell?

The first official reports of destruction and deaths have come. Then it started again. Helicopters flew over the city and fired. At 2 o'clock tanks entered the city. We did not see them ourselves, but they drove along Kurchatov to the water intake and hid somewhere.

Then the commission came and the show went quiet. We ate and returned to the corridor - we pulled out a cupboard with preservation so that we could sleep there together. It turned out that there are so many conservation! Not expected.

We spent the whole evening lying on the bed with mobile phones - the children vied with each other and the news. Such " Water went out for a while. Then appeared. The night was quiet. Completely quiet.

Husband went to work. I'm home. Cats walk in a harness so that they can be fastened to leashes. All.

I do not complain and do not expect that someone will take pity on us. There is a war and people are dying every day and every hour. Every minute someone's houses are destroyed, cars are burned down, for which people have been saving money for years..

Already 191 days. Peaceful days they are so the same. They are so similar to each other: work, household chores, an evening with the family... It is not remembered, it merges into weeks, months, years of a quiet life. Something pleases, something upsets, most of it goes unnoticed. And here comes the war. And that's it. And it will never be the same! And there comes a belated understanding of how wonderful we lived, even when it was boring and it seemed that everything was not going quite as we would like.. Now it's all wrong! And you realize that it used to be wonderfully good! But this is no longer. And every day is scary in its own way.

I know that Mariupol lived in hell for months, Kharkov under shelling for six months. Many cities and villages... they simply do not exist. Next to this, our yesterday's hell is just a terrible episode.

But. There is one small but. All this, all this cross-fire from everything and everything went on without an enemy, without a resisting population - just a fire show to intimidate the IAEA commission and for a video in the rashist media.

There was no sabotage group, no drones, no partisans, and even no group of residents who would like to “open” the eyes of that very commission. Our city has been lying under them for half a year now and, knowing that it lies on a giant bomb, does not move.. In this I see a special horror and inhumanity!

Now that's all"

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Recall that on September 1, the IAEA mission visited the Zaporozhye NPP, which was captured by the Russian military.. The delegation, despite plans to stay there for several days, managed in just over two hours. This caused surprise among many, including the OP, but they urged them to wait for the conclusions of the organization.

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi later stated that some representatives of the mission remained at the ZNPP. According to Energoatom, we are talking about five specialists who will be there until September 3.