The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said he “saw what he needed to see” during today’s inspection in nuclear power plant her Zaporozhye in Ukrainewhich was regularly bombed for several weeks.

“We were able to collect a lot of information in a few hours. I saw the main thing that I needed to see,” Rafael Grossi told the Russian media, accompanying a delegation of IAEA experts to a plant in southern Ukraine seized by Russian troops.

The Ukrainian state company Energoatom later reported on Telegram that Grossi had left the nuclear plant.

A group of inspectors remains at the scene.

According to the Ukrainian company that manages the country’s nuclear power plants, 5 IAEA representatives will remain at the plant site, possibly until September 3.

However, a little earlier, the Russian Interfax news agency reported that after Grossi’s departure, 8-12 IAEA inspectors remained at the NPP site. The agency cited Alexander Volga, the Moscow-appointed governor of the neighboring Russian-controlled city of Energodar. According to him, the IAEA members will be accommodated in a hotel belonging to the nuclear power plant in Energodar.

^{Source: APE, AFP, Reuters.}