Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is under Russian control, was rocked by shelling on Sunday, drawing condemnation from the head of the UN nuclear watchdog, who said such attacks risked a major nuclear disaster.
Repeated shelling of the plant in southern Ukraine has raised concern about the potential for a grave accident just 500km from the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
More than a dozen blasts shook the Zaporizhzhia plant on Saturday evening and Sunday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said.
An IAEA team on the ground said there had been damage to some buildings, systems and equipment at the plant, Europe's largest nuclear power station. The IAEA team could see some of the explosions from their windows.
"The news from our team yesterday and this morning is extremely disturbing," UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said in a statement.
He added: "Explosions occurred at the site of this major nuclear power plant, which is completely unacceptable. Whoever is behind this, it must stop immediately. As I have said many times before, you're playing with fire!"
Kyiv said on Saturday that about 60 Russian soldiers were killed in a long-range Ukrainian artillery attack, the second time in four days that Ukraine's forces claimed to have inflicted major casualties in a single incident.
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