KYIV, 04 March 2022, (TON): Ukraine asks the International Atomic Energy Agency to apply to NATO with a demand to close access to the airspace over nuclear facilities in the country.

This was announced on Thursday by the press service of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine.

The message on the official website said “in order to return the situation related to the safety of nuclear installations, facilities at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and in the exclusion zone, to the legal field, we insist on taking urgent decisive actions to apply to the IAEA to NATO with a demand to introduce, the closure of space over the territory of Ukraine taking into account the risks and the geography of the nuclear power plants of NNEGC Energoatom.”

In the appeal, the Ukrainian side insists on actions by the IAEA for an immediate ceasefire and to prevent troops from approaching closer than 30 km from the nuclear power plant.

Ukraine also stated that it expects specific actions from the IAEA in the form of ‘peer pressure’, which is usually used by member countries of the organization against parties that evade respect for the priority of security.