Russia hopes IAEA mission to Ukraine nuclear plant will dispel misconceptions

A top Russian diplomat said on Monday that Moscow hoped that a visit by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in Ukraine would dispel misconceptions about its allegedly poor state.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog said earlier on Monday that it would inspect the plant this week and that an IAEA team was en route to the facility which has become the focus of international concern with both Ukraine and Russia accusing each other of imperilling its safety.
Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s permanent representative to the international organisations in Vienna, was quoted by the RIA news agency as saying that Russia had worked hard to help make the visit possible and understood that the IAEA wanted to leave some of its staff at the plant on a permanent basis.