Russia hopes for fair IAEA assessment of Zaporozhye NPP attacks - Russian UN ambassador

New York. April 11 (Interfax) - Russia hopes the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will give an objective assessment of the situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (NPP) which has recently come under a series of Ukrainian drone attacks, Russia's Ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebenzya sad.

"We hope that there will also be a fair evaluation of what happened from the leadership of the IAEA whose staff are at the plant and can see Ukrainian provocations first-hand," Nebenzya told the UN Security Council on Thursday.

The IAEA Board of Governors is holding an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss the drone attacks on the NPP. The situation is also expected to be discussed at Russia's request at a special UN SC meeting on April 12.

The NPP has come under a series of Ukrainian military drone attacks, putting its safety under direct threat, Rosatom said earlier. The IAEA and the European Union must promptly react to the attempt at escalation around Europe's biggest nuclear power plant, Rosatom said.

Moscow expects a public, exhaustive and truthful reaction to the incident from the IAEA director-general, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

The IAEA said later that the damage caused by the drones did not pose any threat to nuclear safety.

Since October 2022, the Zaporozhye NPP has been run by Russia's Rosenergoatom (part of the electricity division of Rosatom state corporation). The plant is situated on the bank of the Kakhovka reservoir near the town of Energodar in the Zaporozhye region.