Ukraine nuclear plant ‘completely out of control’

A Russian serviceman guards an area of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in territory under Russian military control in south-eastern Ukraine (AP)

The UN nuclear chief has warned that Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine “is completely out of control” and issued an urgent plea to Russia and Ukraine to quickly allow experts to visit the complex to stabilise the situation and avoid a nuclear accident.

Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said in an interview with the Associated Press (AP) that the situation is getting more perilous every day at the Zaporizhzhia plant in the south-eastern city of Enerhodar, which Russian troops seized in early March, soon after their February 24 invasion of Ukraine.