MOSCOW, September 25. /TASS/. Ukrainian troops actively delivered strikes on civilian infrastructure in the city of Energodar in the Zaporozhye Region all last week, including with the use of drones, Renat Karchaa, an adviser to the director general of Russia’s Rosenergoatom nuclear power engineering company, said on Monday.

"There were quite a lot of explosions [in Energodar last week]. Most of them were caused by [Ukrainian] drones, which targeted civilian infrastructure only, and what’s more, it was in broad daylight," he said in an interview with Russia’s TV Channel One.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts reported on September 15 that they continued to hear numerous explosions at some distance from the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said on Monday that the situation at the plant remains unstable.

Located in the city of Energodar, the Zaporozhye NPP is Europe’s largest nuclear power plant and has six power units with an aggregate capacity of 6 GW. Russian forces took control of the facility in February 2022. Since then, Ukrainian troops have been periodically shelling both the city and the plant’s territory using drones, heavy artillery and multiple launch rocket systems.