Russia tries to prevent IAEA mission from visiting nuclear power plant, using Iran's strategy - ISW

This was reported by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

As noted, in this way the invaders are trying to delay the arrival of International Atomic Energy Agency employees to the Zaporizhzhia NPP.

 "The IAEA had assembled a mission consisting of IAEA Chief Rafael Mariano Grossi and 13 experts from “mostly neutral countries” to visit Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant for observation next week," ISW emphasizes.

However, Russia managed to exclude the US and Great Britain from the mission, calling them "unfairly biased", experts say.

"Manipulation of the nationality of inspectors and attacks on the “fairness” of IAEA inspections are tactics that Iran has long used to obfuscate its obstruction of IAEA inspections," the analysts explained.

The Institute added that, according to Ukrainian official sources, the Russians are torturing ZNNP employees so that they do not tell IAEA inspectors about: security violations at the plant; the fact that the Russian Federation is trying to limit the presence of Ukrainian employees at the ZNPP; the fact that the occupiers began to collect signatures of residents of Energodar with the demand to "stop the Ukrainian shelling" to give to the inspectors.