UN monitors head to troubled Ukrainian nuclear plant

A team of IAEA experts and inspectors leave the capital Kyiv (AP)

United Nations inspectors were making their way across Ukraine towards the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on Wednesday, on a mission to help secure the safety of the facility in the middle of a war zone and avoid a nuclear catastrophe.

Meanwhile, the Russia-backed local authorities in Zaporizhzhia claimed that Ukrainian forces had shelled the territory of the plant and the nearby town of Enerhodar overnight. Both sides have accused each other of bombing the wider area for weeks now, increasing fears of an accident or radiation leak.