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Zelensky meets chief of UN nuclear watchdog in Kyiv.

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During his meeting with Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), President Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated the urgent need for a demilitarized zone around the embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Zelensky asked the IAEA to help Ukraine prevent a nuclear disaster. Russia, which has been shelling Ukrainian positions from the territory of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the Russian-occupied town of Enerhodar,has been accused of using it as a shield and a tool of blackmail.

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