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United Nations demands demilitarized zone around Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant as shelling continues
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The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency repeated a demand that the area surrounding the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine be established as a demilitarized zone on Sunday, after at least a dozen shells exploded at the plant.
Reports of the shellings were “extremely disturbing,” Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said in a statement.
“Explosions occurred at the site of this major nuclear power plant, which is completely unacceptable,” said Grossi. “Whoever is behind this, it must stop immediately. As I have said many times before, you’re playing with fire!”
Russian forces have been occupying the plant and stationing military equipment there since March, following President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Strikes at the plant, which have been reported intermittently since the Russians seized the facility, have sparked fears of a nuclear accident, which experts say could spread radioactive material across Europe. So far no radiation leaks have been reported.
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