“Imagine what it means to go through Kyiv — it means they get to the nuclear power plant through the front line,” Igor Vishnevetsky, deputy head of its nuclear weapons and arms control department, was quoted as saying by the RIA news agency. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to journalists. “This is a huge risk, given that Ukraine’s armed forces are not all created equal.” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Monday in New York that the U.N. secretary assessed that it had the logistical and security capacity to support any IAEA mission to the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia plant from Kyiv. Tass news agency quoted Vishnevetsky as saying that any such mission had no mandate to deal with the “demilitarization” of the plant as demanded by Kyiv, as it could only deal with “fulfilling IAEA guarantees”. (Reporting by Ronald Popeski; Editing by Sandra Maler)
