On September 12, 2024, a group of experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency visited one of the electric power substations, which has a direct impact on the safety and stability of the NPP operation. The substation was recently damaged as a result of massive russian missile attacks on civilian infrastructure.

That visit marked the beginning of the practical implementation of the agreements reached during the meeting between the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi and the IAEA Director General Raphael Grossi. In the future, monitoring missions of the Agency will be present at electric power substations critical for the safety of nuclear installations.

“The ruscists have changed their tactics and are attacking facilities that are extremely important for the uninterrupted operation of our NPPs. The occupiers endanger nuclear and radiation safety and this is real terrorism against humanity. The entire civilized world must strongly condemn these actions and demand cessation of attacks on substations,” Head of Energoatom Petro Kotin said.

IAEA experts, together with representatives of NNEGC “Energoatom”, NPC “Ukrenergo”, and State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine, inspected the facility and documented the damage sustained by the substation as a result of missile attacks.

With joint efforts of the Agency’s member countries, the russian federation’s actions of nuclear blackmail and terror of civilian infrastructure must be stopped.