“He said the IAEA is actively consulting with all parties on efforts to dispatch the mission as soon as possible.

As with the previous two IAEA missions to Ukraine during the conflict, this mission would have been led by Director General Grossi himself,” the agency said in a statement.

On August 19, Russia distributed a letter in the UN Security Council about Kyiv's provocations at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron about the risks of a catastrophe due to shelling of the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant by the Ukrainian army.