NIZHNY NOVGOROD. June 1 (Interfax) - Ukraine's position on the plan unveiled by International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi at the UN Security Council essentially reserves the opportunity for Kiev to strike the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, Rosatom head Alexei Likhachev said.
"I'm afraid that by refusing to directly support these principles, the Kiev regime has reserved the right to [conduct] a possible attack on the facility," Likhachev told reporters in Nizhny Novgorod.
"Given the overall positive atmosphere during the discussion of Grossi's proposals at the UN Security Council, I'd like to note that the Ukrainian side de facto did not support these proposals as they stand," he said.
"In one sense, luck is on our side; there is a desire to knock on wood and cross our fingers," Likhachev said.
"We are coping so far. But he [Grossi] is right when he said that the situation is not 100% under control," he said.
IAEA Director General Grossi presented a five-point plan for safeguarding the Zaporozhye NPP to the UN Security Council on Tuesday. Grossi's plan proposes a ban on firing from the premises of or towards the nuclear power plant, a ban on deploying heavy military equipment and military personnel at the facility that could be used for an attack, protecting all structures and systems that are essential to the plant's safe and secure operation, protecting all off-site power lines, and refraining from steps that could undermine these principles.