Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi said the agency’s inspection team was on its way to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, which has been bombed in recent weeks.

“We are finally moving after an effort that lasted several months,” Grossi told reporters in Kyiv before leaving. “The International Atomic Energy Agency is moving to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant,” the largest in Europe.

The Russian army has been in control of the station since early March, days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February 24.

Grossi added: “I fully understand the importance of this moment and we are ready. The IAEA is ready. We will prepare a report after our mission. We will spend a few days there.”

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky received the agency’s experts and stressed that the international community should get Russia to “immediately disarm” the station.

He added that this includes “the withdrawal of all Russian military personnel with all their explosives and weapons” from this site in southern Ukraine, which Moscow and Kyiv accuse each other of bombing.