- According to Rafael Grossi, the team will arrive at the facilities throughout this week.

- Zelensky advances that there will be "future actions by our defenders" and warns Russia.

Zaporizhia nuclear power plant

The IAEA confirms the dispatch of a special mission to secure the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant with a total of 14 experts

After weeks of negotiations and tensions over the Zaporizhia nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine, a team of experts from the IAEA, the UN nuclear agency, has left for the plant, which has been occupied by Russian troops since March.

This was reported on Monday on Twitter by the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, who attached a photo of the team of 14 experts who will be "later this week" at the plant, the largest in Europe.

"The day has finally come," says the CEO's tweet without giving details about the experts' travel route or the expected duration of the mission. The group sent to Ukraine, headed by Grossi himself, includes the directors of the IAEA for safeguards (controls), Massimiliano Aparo, and for technological and physical nuclear security, Lydie Evrard.

According to information received from Ukraine by the IAEA, there have been numerous bombings in recent days in Zaporizhia, which, however, have not caused any type of radioactive leaks in the facility. Russia and Ukraine blame each other for the attacks, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said came close to causing a radioactive disaster.

The Russian army occupied the plant, with its six reactors, in early March and since then the plant's local employees have operated the facility under military supervision from Moscow. As Grossi indicated last night in a statement, the IAEA mission must evaluate the physical damage suffered by the plant's facilities, and determine if the main security and protection system, and the reserve one, work.

In addition, it must assess the working conditions of plant personnel and carry out urgent safeguard activities (controls) to ensure the stocks of nuclear materials declared by Ukraine to the IAEA.

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