The situation at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine continues to deteriorate.
Several artillery shells reportedly fell in the town of Enerhodar, where the power plant employees live, on Sunday evening.
As in the previous days, the Russian and Ukrainian sides blamed each other for the shelling.
Videos from both sides showed that numerous cars were burning in residential areas.
A few hours earlier, Russian troops had allegedly shot down an armed Ukrainian drone directly over one of the six reactors.
Russian attacks were reported along the front line and from several regions in the Ukrainian hinterland on Sunday.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed the next steps to counter the invasion with the military and security apparatus.
He did not give details, but announced: "The occupiers will feel the consequences in the further actions of our defenders." On Monday it was 187 days since Russia started the war against the neighboring country.
Drone allegedly falls on concrete protective cover around reactor
As a further step in the escalation at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, the Russian occupation administration reported an alleged Ukrainian attack with a drone.
The aircraft was shot down and fell on the containment shell over a reactor.
The explosive charge detonated without causing any damage.
This information has not been independently verified.
It was assumed that the drone was intended to hit a spent fuel storage facility.
Nine people were injured, two of them seriously, by the nightly shelling of the city of Enerhodar, said Vladimir Rogov, a member of the occupation administration, on Monday night.
The information could not be independently verified.
The escaped Ukrainian mayor of Enerhodar, Dmytro Orlow, spoke of a provocation: Russian troops had fired.
He accused Moscow of "nuclear blackmail" because Russian troops entrenched themselves in the nuclear power plant.
Meanwhile, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, has announced that a team of experts has made its way to the power plant.
The mission under his leadership will arrive "later this week" at Europe's largest nuclear power plant, Grossi said on Monday on Twitter.
Because of the repeated shelling of the nuclear power plant, for which Ukraine and Russia blame each other, fear of a nuclear catastrophe like that in Chernobyl in 1986 is growing.
Two reactors went into emergency shutdown last week because the power supply was intermittent.
Zelenskyj: Every attack is followed by a response
No attack on Ukrainian cities will remain unanswered, said President Zelenskyj after the consultation with the military: "Zaporizhzhia, Orikhiv, Kharkiv, Donbass - you will get an answer for everyone." According to the Presidential Office, the meeting was about the situation the front, the needs of the army and coordination with international partners.