Rafael Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has confirmed that the first rotation of the IAEA Support and Assistance Mission to Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine was complete and "now a new reinforced team of IAEA safety, security, and safeguards experts is at the plant," the IAEA said in a tweet on Friday.

"Grossi said that the team will continue its indispensable mission and will support, once agreed, the nuclear safety and security protection zone around the site of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant," it added.