Moscow Attacks Kyiv

The Russian military, on Thursday, accused the Ukrainian forces of sending a team of "saboteurs" near the Zaporizhia nuclear plant, on the day the International Atomic Energy Agency's team visits the facility.

The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement: "At about six o'clock (0300 GMT), two groups of Ukrainian army saboteurs, about sixty people, disembarked from 7 boats... 3 kilometers north-east of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant."

The ministry added that it had taken "measures to eliminate the enemy." 

Russia continues accusing Ukraine of engaging in provocations aimed at disrupting the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency mission and threatening a man-made disaster at the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant.

The Russian statement came after Ukraine accused Russia, on Thursday, of bombing the city of Energodar, where the Zaporizhia nuclear plant is located, before the visit of the International Atomic Energy Agency delegation.

Since the early morning, the mayor of this city, Dmitro Orlov, said on Telegram that "(the Russians) have been hitting Energodar with mortars and machine guns and bombing them with missiles," accompanying the post with photos showing damaged buildings and plumes of black smoke.

"The Russian army is bombing Energodar. The situation is dangerous because of these provocations," the official of the Nikopol administration, located off Energodar on the opposite bank of the Dinber River, said via Telegram.