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Russia intends to use the IAEA staff at the Zaporozhye NPP to force the internat...

Russia tries to restrain the counter -offensive of the Armed Forces, exacerbating the threats at the Zaporozhye NPP - isw

Russia intends to use the IAEA staff at the Zaporozhye NPP to force the international community to recognize the Russian right of ownership of the station, consider analysts of the Institute of War Study. The Russian occupation power in Energodar tries to further limit the presence of representatives of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant. In this way, they try to make their right to a strategic object de facto.

This is stated in the analytical report for March 1, the American Institute of War Study (ISW). It is noted that previously announced for February 10, the rotation of the MAEM Mission's employees was postponed "for safety reasons". On February 20, the CEO Rafael Grosssey said that the situation remains unstable, and on February 28, 20 explosions occurred near the ZPP.

The Russian ISP in turn reported on February 22 that the UN Security and Security Department had postponed the IAEA staff for indefinitely. The representative of the Russian occupation power in Energodar Volodymyr Rogov yesterday, March 1, stated that the Western intelligence services disrupted the Rotation of the IAEA mission to the ZPP.

"Russian and occupying power probably intends to use either the IAEA staff who may have been trapped or abbreviated the presence of the IAEA at the station, to force the international community to recognize Russian right of ownership of the station. Russian and occupation power, possibly , also trying to restrain the possible future Ukrainian counter -offensive in the south of Ukraine by increasing threats to the NPP, " - said analysts of the Institute of War Study.

There were 11,000 people in 2000 for a full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, and now left 2000. Due to the lack of staff instead of changes in 6 hours, the NPP workers work for 16 hours. On February 20, Energoatom reported that Russian invaders accommodated 600 mobilized Russians and cadets in bomb shelter in the territory of OPP. On the roof of the fifth NPP unit, the occupiers have a machine -gun position.