Grossi commented on the murder of the chief engineer of the Zaporozhye NPP

The head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, called the death of the chief engineer of the Zaporozhye NPP "an unacceptable attack on the station and its management, seriously threatening nuclear safety."

"The IAEA calls for an immediate cessation of all attacks on nuclear facilities and their personnel," said Grossi, whose words are quoted in the IAEA's tweet on Wednesday.

The chief engineer of the Zaporozhye NPP, Alexander Yakovlev, was killed as a result of a strike by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the head of the Rosatom State Corporation, Alexei Likhachev, said earlier.

"Alexander Yakovlev devoted his whole life to nuclear energy and died, in fact, at a combat post," Likhachev said.

The enemy drone attacked Yakovlev's official car. The driver died with him.

The head of Rosatom said that Russia expects from the IAEA "a prompt, concrete and clear response to the tragedy that has occurred."

Kiev's murder of the chief engineer of the NPP is a step towards escalation on the path of nuclear terror, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador—at-large Rodion Miroshnik said in a Telegram channel.

"The Ukrainian Nazis have long embarked on this deadly path and are moving the world towards catastrophe," the diplomat said.

The reaction to the terrorist attack committed by the nuclear powers will be indicative, Miroshnik stressed. It will demonstrate the level of the desire of states to save the world from a nuclear catastrophe, and it is precisely at this that the dictatorial regime in the In Kiev, the ambassador pointed out.