An IAEA mission visited the Zaporizhzhia NPP, the organization said. It is headed by the organization's director general Rafael Grossi. Earlier, the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported that the IAEA experts were due to arrive in Kyiv today.

It is the facts collected during the visit to the plant that the IAEA needs in order to conduct an independent assessment of nuclear safety and security risks, the IAEA said in a statement. The experts of the organization must assess the damage caused to the station during the shelling, the level of safety and conditions of detention of Ukrainian specialists.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the IAEA inspection of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant will be held from August 31 to September 3.

The Russian military has been in control of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, since March. Energoatom's Ukrainian specialists continue to work there. Since August, the plant has been under regular shelling. Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of shelling. The international community fears that shelling of the plant could lead to a nuclear disaster. Forty-two countries have called on Russia to return the plant to Ukraine's control to ensure the plant's safety, Kommersant reports. https://www.kommersant.ru/