MOSCOW, 1 Sep — PRIME. Part of the convoy of the IAEA mission is now in the gray zone in line at the checkpoint, while the head part is partially detained at the checkpoint from the Ukrainian side, they don’t let it through and there is no communication with it, head of the administration of the Zaporozhye region Yevgeny Balitsky said on the Rossiya 1 TV channel.
“We have no connection (with the head of the IAEA Rafael Grossi – ed.) … Some of them are on neutral territory, some are detained by a checkpoint. The entire Ukrainian side did not allow the column, part of the column that passed is in the middle gray zone, we have not yet We see. The first cars … drove further in the direction of the station, but this is not the head column, these are not specialists who should then issue protocols, “he said.
Balitsky noted that the mission is located on neutral territory and is partially detained by Ukraine, “in fact, the Ukrainian checkpoint does not let them through.”
He expressed hope that the mission would have enough European influence to break through the Ukrainian side and added that the administration of the Zaporozhye region does not set any restrictions.