IAEA team at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant reports detonations near area
This photo taken on Sept. 11, 2022, shows a security person standing in front of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Enerhodar, Zaporizhzhia, amid the Ukraine war.
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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency reiterated calls for relevant parties to establish a security perimeter around Ukraine’s embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
“I saw clear indications of military preparations in the area when I visited the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant just over three weeks ago,” IAEA director general Rafael Grossi said in a statement.
“Since then, our experts at the site have frequently reported about hearing detonations, at times suggesting intense shelling not far from the site. I’m deeply concerned about the situation at the plant,” he added.
Russian forces seized Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, in the days following the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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Sanctions against Russia could lead to a new global economic crisis, Kremlin says
Red Square, Moscow
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The Kremlin warned that new Western sanctions imposed on Russia would have a devastating impact on the global economy, and start a new crisis.
“The new additional steps that Brussels and Washington are probably thinking about now, they will, of course, hit the global economy,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters during a daily briefing.
“Therefore, this can only lead to an increase in trends towards a global economic crisis,” he said, adding that Moscow was “monitoring this very carefully.”
Peskov said that no nation in the world has faced the cadence and volume of sanctions as Russia.
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Lavrov heads to New York to hold meetings at the United Nations
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov gives an annual press conference on Russian diplomacy in 2021, in Moscow on January 14, 2022.
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