IAEA chief says attacks around Europe's largest nuclear power plant have increased

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Russian forces seized the NPP in the early weeks following the 2022 invasion and have held it ever since but fighting around the complex has raised fears of a nuclear accident.

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00:00The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has said attacks around the Zaporizhia

00:06nuclear power plant have increased.

00:10Rafael Grossi made the remarks in Moscow after talks with the chief of Russia's state-owned

00:14nuclear energy corporation Rosatom.

00:17Grossi is in Moscow to discuss security at Europe's largest nuclear power plant.

00:24Russian forces took control of Zaporizhia in the early weeks following the 2022 invasion

00:29of Ukraine.

00:31In a statement, Rosatom said Ukraine was constantly shelling Enerhoda, the closest town to the

00:36plant.

00:38But Grossi said it wasn't possible to determine which side was responsible for the strikes.

00:45Rosatom also emphasized the increasing risks for nuclear security at the Kursk nuclear

00:50power plant.

00:52Ukrainian troops launched an incursion into Kursk in August last year, it says, to prevent

00:56Russian forces from launching strikes into Ukraine.

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