Ukraine demanded that the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (south), which is controlled by Russian forces, be made a "demilitarized" zone, and in return Russia accused the Ukrainian authorities of targeting the plant, describing it as a terrorist act.
In recent days, Moscow and Kiev accused each other of launching strikes near the existing station, in an area controlled by Russian forces.
The head of the Ukrainian Nuclear Energy Corporation Petro Kotin suggested deploying a team of peacekeepers and experts from various international agencies, and removing Russian forces from the nuclear plant.
He said that the presence of peacekeepers in the area and the transfer of control over it to them, and then transferring control of the station to the Ukrainian side after that, will solve this problem.
Kotin, Ukraine's top nuclear official, added that if two or three containers of nuclear fuel were bombed, "it will be impossible to estimate the scale of this disaster."
Yesterday, Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused - in a tweet on Twitter - of practicing "nuclear terrorism", calling for a stronger response from the international community, and imposing sanctions on the Russian nuclear sector and fuel.
The station, located in Russian-controlled territory, was bombed last Friday.
The Ukrainian state nuclear energy company, Energoatum, said that Russian forces damaged three radioactive sensors when they bombed the facility again on Saturday evening, wounding one of its workers with shrapnel.
international mission
In turn, Ukraine's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yevni Tsymbalyuk, said today, Monday, that Russian forces want to cause power outages in the south of his country by bombing the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant complex.
Tsympalyuk called for sending an international mission to the largest station of its kind in Europe this month, to see the situation there.
He told reporters in Vienna that his country would use all possible diplomatic channels to urge the International Atomic Energy Agency and the United Nations to carry out this task.
And he added, "We really need it urgently, as soon as possible, no later than the end of this month."
Russian accusations
On the other hand, the Kremlin said - on Monday - that Western countries with influence over Ukraine should pressure Kyiv to stop bombing the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, Europe's largest.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the bombing of the station was "extremely dangerous".
For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry accused the Ukrainian authorities of targeting the Zaporozhye nuclear plant again on Sunday, describing it as a terrorist act.
Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov indicated that production in the fifth and sixth power units had been reduced to 500 megawatts to prevent the plant from being shut down.
On Friday, Russian-appointed officials in the nearby town of Enerhodar said - in a statement - that the Ukrainian bombing had damaged power lines serving the station.
The statement stated that the administrative buildings and areas adjacent to the storage facility were damaged.
nuclear disaster
On Friday, the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, warned of the danger of a nuclear catastrophe.
The missiles hit a high-voltage power line at the nuclear facility, prompting the operators to disconnect one of the reactors, although no radiation leak was detected.
On Friday, Moscow and Kiev accused each other of bombing Europe's largest nuclear power plant.
Zaporozhye is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, and one of the 10 largest nuclear power plants in the world, containing 6 nuclear reactors.
Russian forces captured the nuclear plant in the first phase of the war in early March, but it is still operated by Ukrainian technicians.