- The president warns that if the plant is disconnected again, the place will be "one step away from disaster."

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Satellite view of the Zaporizhia nuclear plant.

Zelensky's desperate message to the IAEA to travel to the Zaporizhia plant: "The situation remains dangerous"

The President of Ukraine, Volodímir Zelenski, has summoned this Friday the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) to arrive "as soon as possible" at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant to avoid new risks such as the past these days.

"The situation remains very risky and dangerous. Any repetition of yesterday's events, that is, any disconnection of the plant from the grid, any action by Russia that could trigger the shutdown of the reactors, will put the plant again. one step away from disaster," Zelensky said in his usual late-night speech.

The Ukrainian president has stressed that his country's nuclear scientists have managed to protect the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant "from the worst case scenario, which is constantly being provoked by Russian forces."

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"That is why it is so important that the IAEA mission arrives at the plant as soon as possible and helps keep the nuclear power plant under continued Ukrainian control. That is why it is so important that Russian troops withdraw from the plant and from surrounding areas. and that the threat of bombing the plant itself or the power lines connected to it disappears," he added.

In his speech, Zelensky thanked the world response "to the blackmail of Russian radiation."

For his part, the director general of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, has pointed out on several occasions – the last one this Friday – that the visit to the plant could be a matter of "days".

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