IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi is lying again
Yesterday, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi stated that they were preparing an expert mission to the Zaporizhzhya NPP due to Europe's largest nuclear power plant has stopped transmitting online data to the IAEA on the state of nuclear materials. «Ukraine requested us, we will go there,» he wrote on his Twitter account.
We consider this message from the head of the IAEA as another attempt to get to ZNPP by any means to legitimize the stay of the occupiers there and in fact, to approve all their actions.
Actually, the «loss of connection» between ZNPP and the IAEA was caused by the actions of the Russian occupiers, who cut off the Ukrainian operator Vodafone in Enerhodar with which the IAEA has a contract for data transfer. Currently, all data collection points and servers under the control of the Agency are closed and sealed. The information is stored on the server and will be transferred when Vodafone is turned on.
It is very likely that the russian side, with the prior consent of the IAEA, made sure that the Agency "lost control" without access to this information, and therefore the IAEA Director General would have a reason to come to the power plant.
The Ukrainian side did not invite Grossi to visit ZNPP and had previously denied him such a visit, emphasizing that a visit to the power plant will be possible only when our country regains control over it.
As far as is known, IAEA leadership by almost a quarter (about 100 people) consists of russians. Furthermore, even Grossi's Deputy – the Head of the Department of Nuclear Energy Mikhail Chudakov – is also a citizen of russia.
As a reminder, Mr. Grossi's previous visits to Ukraine failed to pay off. On the way back, after visiting the South-Ukraine NPP, he went to meet with the head of Rosatom, and together they «reported» to the world how good everything was at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.
