Russia has outlined its place on the creation of a security zone across the Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant and is now awaiting a response, Russia’s RIA information company reported on Friday citing the pinnacle of state-run nuclear vitality company Rosatom.

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“Our consultant on the IAEA (Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company) in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, is actively working, all of us perceive, however now the choice will not be on the Russian facet, not in Moscow,” Rosatom CEO Alexei Likhachev was quoted by RIA as saying.

Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant, which was seized by Russia shortly after its invasion of Ukraine, has since come beneath repeated shelling, drawing condemnation from the IAEA, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, which has referred to as for a security zone to be created across the plant.