MELITOPOL, January 11. /TASS/. A new team of four experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has commenced work at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant as part of the agency's observer mission, the ZNPP’s press service said.

"Today, we had the next, 15th, rotation of IAEA mission observers at the Zaporozhye NPP. The mission includes four inspectors, whose task, as before, will be to observe and assess the state of the plant's safety, both operational and physical," the press service said.

IAEA experts have been working at the plant since September 2022, when a permanent mission of IAEA observers was established at the power plant following the first visit there by the agency’s Director General Rafael Grossi.

Located in Energodar, the Zaporozhye nuclear facility, with roughly 6GW of capacity, is the largest of its kind in Europe. Russia took control of the plant on February 28, 2022, in the first days of its special military operation in Ukraine. Since then, units of the Ukrainian army have periodically shelled both residential districts in nearby Energodar as well as the premises of the nuclear plant itself, by means of drones, heavy artillery and multiple launch rocket systems.