International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) officials have confirmed that there are mines in close proximity to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, currently under Russian occupation.
IAEA experts have seen directional anti-personnel mines on the periphery of the site, the agency’s director-general Rafael Mariano Grossi said on Monday (24 July).
On Sunday the IAEA team saw some mines in a buffer zone between the site’s internal and external perimeter barriers. The team reported that they were in a restricted area that operating plant personnel cannot access and were facing away from the site. The team did not see any within the inner site perimeter.
“As I have reported earlier, the IAEA has been aware of the previous placement of mines outside the site perimeter and also at particular places inside,” Grossi said.