IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi called for an immediate halt to the attacks around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant on October 3. Grossi said the attacks posed a threat to the plant’s nuclear safety.

Grossi said that actions endangering nuclear safety were absolutely unacceptable and stated that all sides must exercise maximum restraint around the plant and related energy infrastructure to prevent the risk of a nuclear accident during the conflict.
Grossi is negotiating with the parties on a new local ceasefire so that repairs can be carried out at the nearby Zaporizhzhia Thermal Power Plant, which supplies off-site power to the nuclear plant. If the plan goes ahead, it will be the eighth local ceasefire arranged through the IAEA to secure external power supplies.

Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev had earlier argued that the international community would sooner or later understand that the only nuclear risk at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant stemmed from the reckless actions of Ukrainian forces.
According to the IAEA, drone attacks targeting the Zaporizhzhia Thermal Power Plant on Sept. 19, 20 and 27 damaged transformers that are important for delivering off-site power to the nuclear plant. An attack on Sept. 22 disabled an external monitoring station that tracks radiation levels around the plant, while other strikes reportedly hit buildings in Enerhodar, where a large part of the plant's staff live.