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Russian occupiers staying at the site of the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) force the plant workers to drain the cooling pools, Energoatom reported on its Telegram channel on Thursday.

Russian occupiers are preparing a provocation accusing Ukrainian nuclear scientists of storing weapons on the territory of Zaporizhia NPP, Energoatom state enterprise reported on Telegram.

Ukraine opposed any visit by Rafael Grossi, head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, to its nuclear plant at Zaporizhzhia which is occupied by Russia.

Russian strategic bombers fired missiles at Kyiv from as far away as the Caspian Sea early on Sunday and explosions shook two of the Ukrainian capital's eastern districts, Ukraine's air force and the city's mayor said.

Energoatom and American Westinghouse signed an agreement on the supply of nuclear fuel to all nuclear power plant (NPPs) in Ukraine on June 2 at the site of Khmelnytsky NPP, the company told Interfax-Ukraine on Friday.

Energoatom has completed construction, commissioning and testing of new highly flexible generating capacities for production of electricity and connected them to the power system of Ukraine.

Energoatom has refuted the information voiced in Davos by the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, about stockpiles of 30,000 kg of plutonium and 40,000 kg of enriched uranium at Zaporizhia nuclear power plant occupied by Russian invaders, which, in his opinion, are at risk of being kidnapped for military purposes.

Energoatom has received a special permit from the State Nuclear Regulatory Commission to commission the centralized spent nuclear fuel storage facility, the company said on Monday.

National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom will develop a new program to protect Ukraine's nuclear facilities to increase their defense capability, taking into account the experience of military aggression by the Russian Federation, the head of the company, Petro Kotin, has said.

Energoatom, after resuming its control over the Central Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility (CSFSF) after leaving the exclusion zone of the Russian invaders, will first of all continue to work on obtaining permission for its operation from the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine, which was scheduled for March 9 before the war, Head of the company Petro Kotin has said.