“My inspectors will make a tour of the station tomorrow morning, if the situation allows... The situation at the station worsened yesterday and today.

Last night shelling of the ZNPP resumed, this morning they were continued," TASS quoted him as saying.

According to him, the IAEA is currently assessing the damage.

“The station was affected, but the reactors were not affected,” Grossi said.

He also suggested that, "most likely, the area where the spent and new fuel is located was affected."

Earlier, adviser to the general director of Rosenergoatom, Renat Karchaa, said that the Ukrainian military had subjected the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant to massive artillery fire.

Strategic facilities were damaged.