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Russia and Ukraine have agreed to an IAEA visit following the'suicidal' nuclear facility bombing.

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  In response to reports of shelling at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in southeast Ukraine, diplomats called for an end to hostilities so that UN inspectors might visit the facility.   Several explosions struck the plant on Friday, resulting in some damage and partially cutting off a reactor from Ukraine's power system, but no radioactive spill was found. The complex, which has six nuclear reactors and is the biggest of its kind in Europe, is under the control of Russian soldiers, although Ukrainian employees continue to run the facility.   An attack on a nuclear site would be "suicidal," according to U.N. chief António Guterres, who also requested that inspectors from the IAEA, the organization in charge of overseeing nuclear activities, be permitted access to Zaporizhzhia.   Poland's Foreign Affairs Ministry stated on Twitter on Monday that Russia "must immediately end the occupation of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and evacuate its mili