The comments from a politician came amid renewed shelling near the plant and growing fears of a potential nuclear catastrophe.
"Back to IAEA, their visit will be successful for us if their Polish and Lithuanian representatives don't mine the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant," said Delyagin, a member of the State Duma."As far as the situation in general...a very long, very painful, very frightening period of instability awaits us," the politician said."We're in the very beginning stages of this instability.
Delyagin's comments came as Russia and Ukraine accused each other once again of shelling near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
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