Diplomatic efforts to establish a nuclear safety and security protection zone around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant are making headway, despite Russia's declaration that it would not give up control over the plant.

Diplomatic efforts to establish a nuclear safety and security protection zone around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant are making headway.

Russia had declared that it would not give up control over the ZNPP in order to create a nuclear safety zone.

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi held talks with senior Ukrainian officials in Kyiv and Russian government officials in Moscow, including Alexey Likhachev of Rosatom.

Diplomatic talks are ongoing to establish a nuclear safety and security protection zone around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant with the aim to agree and implement this measure soon.

The proposed zone focuses solely on preventing a nuclear accident by stopping shelling to and from the area around Europe's largest nuclear plant.

Russia excludes the option of demilitarizing Zaporizhzhia NPP and its perimeter.