The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, said on Wednesday (August 31) the agency's planned visit to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was a "technical" mission to evaluate the situation at the power plant, Reuters reports.
The mission arrived earlier on Wednesday in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, 55 km (34 miles) away from the plant.
Earlier on Wednesday Ukraine's energy minister German Galushchenko told Reuters that the IAEA mission to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant was a step towards "deoccupying and demilitarising" the site.
The plant of six power units, the largest in Europe, was captured by Moscow in March but is still operated by Ukrainian staff under the supervision of Russian troops and nuclear engineers.
The plant's territory, which is less than 10 km away from Ukrainian positions across the Dnipro river, has come under repeated shelling over the past month, with Kyiv and Moscow accusing each other of being responsible.
