The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission has arrived at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, the press service of Ukraine's atomic energy company Energoatom has said.
It was reported earlier that the mission vehicles had passed the "grey zone" towards Enerhodar. During the passage, shots from small arms were heard from the side of the occupiers. Before this, the mission had spent several hours at a checkpoint, waiting for permission from the security service.
Meanwhile, russian state media have published a video from the Vasylivka checkpoint showing the stopped mission vehicles and the military checking them.
On 31 August, the IAEA mission set off for the ZNPP. It is to work at the station until 3 September.
On 1 September, it became known that russians were shelling the agreed route of the IAEA mission from Zaporizhzhya to the ZNPP, as well as the satellite city of ZNPP - Enerhodar. It was reported that, despite the shelling, the IAEA mission had set off for Enerhodar.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry announced that russian troops were heavily shelling the route which the IAEA experts were to take from Zaporizhzhya to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.
"Violating its commitments, the russian army is intensively shelling the corridor through which the IAEA mission is supposed to proceed from Zaporizhzhya to the nuclear power plant. Russia must immediately stop these dangerous provocations and allow the safe passage of the IAEA," Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleh Nikolenko said.