Any mission undertaken by the UN’s nuclear agency to inspect Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia plant cannot pass through the capital Kyiv as it is too dangerous, a senior Russian diplomat was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying on Tuesday.
“Imagine what it means to pass through Kyiv – it means they get to the nuclear plant through the front line,” RIA news agency quoted Igor Vishnevetsky, deputy head of the foreign ministry’s nuclear proliferation and arms control department as telling journalists.
“This is a huge risk, given that Ukraine’s armed forces are not all made up in the same way.”
