VIENNA, November 26. /TASS/. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Sunday that its experts who are present at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) heard the sounds of rocket launches in the vicinity of the facility.

"The IAEA experts present at the ZNPP heard several rockets that appeared to have been fired from close to the plant. The IAEA team did not see the projectiles because of clouds but the distinctive sound indicated they were fired from a Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) nearby," it said in a press statement posted on its website.

In this context, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi noted that the ZNPP is facing many potential threats amid combat operations. "The apparent firing of rockets from near the plant is a special source of concern," he was quoted as saying.

On November 22, Grossi said that the IAEA had found no violations of the five ZNPP security principles, which envisage in particular the non-deployment of heavy weapons and troops that could be used to stage offensives.

Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian foreign ministry's special envoy for the crimes of the Kiev regime, said earlier that Ukraine delivers from 70 to 150 strikes on the ZNPP and the city of Energodar every week.

Meanwhile, deputy director of the Russian foreign ministry’s nonproliferation and arms control department, Konstantin Vorontsov, vowed that no heavy weapons had ever been deployed to the ZNPP’s territory and no attacks had ever been launched from it. He stressed that no troops other than those to protect the facility or address possible emergencies had been stationed on its territory.