IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi called Wednesday's meetings with high-ranking representatives of the Ukrainian government at the Yuzhnoukrainsk NPP very productive and announced the imminent arrival of experts to Ukrainian nuclear facilities.

"IAEA expert teams and additional safety equipment will arrive very soon to Ukraine's nuclear facilities," he said on Twitter at the end of the day.

The daily report of the organization indicates that at meetings with Minister of Energy of Ukraine Herman Haluschenko, heads of the nuclear regulator of Ukraine Oleh Korikov and Energoatom Petro Kotin, as well as director of the Yuzhnoukrainsk NPP Ihor Polovych, specific steps were considered to provide urgent assistance to Ukraine in protecting its nuclear facilities.

In addition, it was indicated that on Wednesday the first power unit VVER-440 of the Rivne NPP was connected to the power system, as a result of which their total number in operation increased to nine out of fifteen: four at the Rivne NPP, one at the Khmelnytsky NPP, two at the Yuzhnoukrainsk NPP and two at the at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant captured by Russian troops.