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Request for changing IAEA monitors’ route may pursue military aims -— Rosenergoatom

"There are reasons to believe that the requested changes are an attempt to use the mission as a cover to expose the positions of the Russian armed forces along the line of confrontation," Renat Karchaa said

MOSCOW, February 21. /TASS/. There is every reason to suspect that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors' request for changing their route to the Zaporozhye NPP conceals the wish to obtain information about the positions of Russian forces near the line of engagement, Renat Karchaa, an adviser to the CEO of the Rosenergoatom concern, said on Tuesday.

"There are reasons to believe that the requested changes are an attempt to use the mission as a cover to expose the positions of the Russian armed forces along the line of confrontation. Someone pursues openly military aims," he said on the TV channel Rossiya-24.

Karchaa recalled that the rotation of IAEA experts, originally scheduled for February 7, was later canceled after the UN Department of Safety and Security stated that it was impossible to ensure safety along the route due to an alleged upsurge in hostilities in the area and the risks posed by land mines and unexploded ordnance.

He said that on February 15, the UN Department of Safety and Security proposed a new crossing point the IAEA specialists might use. The Russian side needed time to study the security issue.

"The Russian side took a pause, and then there followed a hysterical reaction from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. Russia was accused of disrupting the rotation and obstructing the activities of the IAEA mission. Quite obviously, a conflict is being provoked," Karchaa stressed.

Earlier, IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi said that the situation around the Zaporozhye NPP remained unstable and unpredictable. At the beginning of September 2022, the IAEA’s mission led by Grossi visited the Zaporozhye NPP. After that, several of the agency’s staffers remained at the NPP as observers. The IAEA later published a report calling for the creation of a security zone around the ZNPP in order to prevent accidents the hostilities might cause. In October last year, the first rotation of the team of experts at ZNPP took place.

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