Russia's war in Ukraine has brought fears of a nuclear catastrophe as Zaporizhzhia has repeatedly been caught in the crossfire of fighting.
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00:00The head of the UN's Atomic Watchdog says he intends to visit Moscow in the coming days
00:06to discuss Russia's persistent attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, which he
00:11says threaten nuclear safety.
00:14We are very clear, you know, we have, I have from the very beginning of this war insisted
00:21and managed to keep a very open channel of communication with, of course, with Kyiv and
00:29with Moscow.
00:30I met President Putin several times, Minister Lavrov, the CEO of Rosatom, the, I mean, people
00:41from the military.
00:43It comes after Grossi visited an electrical substation in Kyiv on Tuesday, during which
00:49he was shown the damage caused to the country's key power grid facilities by Russian strikes.
00:55Grossi says this damage poses a threat to nuclear safety by potentially disrupting vital
01:01cooling procedures at atomic plants.
01:04He added that there were a few occasions where we had close calls with regard to Europe's
01:09largest nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia, which is under Russian occupation.
01:15Zaporizhia has repeatedly been caught in the crossfire of fighting, and while its six reactors
01:21have been shut down for months, it still needs power and staff to operate crucial cooling
01:26systems and other safety features.