Russia MoD on Telegram: "⚡️ Hostilities unleashed by Ukrainian sabotage groups on the day of IAEA experts' visit with artillery shelling of Zaporozhye NPP by AFU leave no doubt that Zelensky regime had prepared this military provocation well in advance.

▫️It was the completion of preparations for the seizure of Zaporozhye NPP by Ukrainian subversives on the day of IAEA experts' visit that was the reason for the cancellation of Mr. Grossi's visit to the plant on August 31 which was replaced by his "unscheduled" meeting with Mr. Zelensky.

▫️It is obvious that if the Kiev regime's operation to seize the plant were to succeed, IAEA head Rafael Grossi and the mission experts would become a "human shield" for the Ukrainian saboteurs to prevent any action by units of the Russian Armed Forces to destroy them.

▫️The role of IAEA mission would then be limited to fixing the new status quo - "Zaporozhye NPP has been taken over by Kiev", with a new wave of loud statements from Washington and European capitals calling on Russia to ensure a "demilitarised zone" around the NPP, where IAEA monitors would remain under the protection of the Ukrainian military.

▫️This provocation was thwarted by the effective actions of units of the Russian Armed Forces and National Guard. At present IAEA mission led by Rafael Grossi has arrived at the nuclear power plant and started its planned work with full security ensured by the Russian side. The position of Mr. Grossi and his team, who went to the plant despite Kiev's provocations and shelling by AFU, is worthy of respect.

▫️In this regard, we understand perfectly the undertaking of silence of all western sponsors of Zelensky's regime, which actually confirms their secret participation in the preparation of today's provocation at Zaporozhye NPP. At the same time, the absence of a public response from UN Secretary General António Guterres in Vienna to Kiev's actions near Zaporozhye NPP causes justified bewilderment.

▫️Such silence not only casts a shadow and questions the objectivity of the UN approaches to the situation around Zaporozhye NPP, but also leads to further escalation of the situation there with full impunity for the Kiev regime."

Intel Slava Z on Telegram: "And so what happened today in Energodar. The landing operation was supposed to be the icing on the cake of the Kherson offensive. The Armed Forces of Ukraine prepared it for a long time, trained landings from boats, carefully masked the preparatory measures (which did not prevent our intelligence from carefully monitoring them).

And even though the Kherson offensive operation itself did not go according to plan, the capture of Energdar by a river assault was supposed to neutralize the negative consequences of huge losses and, in general, at the moment, an extremely unsuccessful attempt at a counteroffensive.

As a result, early this morning, 2 barges and up to 30 boats of the Ukrainian landing force began to cross the Dnieper and crossed it directly into a prepared ambush, where Russian Guard soldiers and army aviation were already waiting for them.

One barge was burned right on the way, parts of the landing force were allowed to land on the shore, pressed down by fire and began to methodically and cold-bloodedly destroy. Now up to 60 corpses of Ukrainian fighters of the most elite units lie on the shore, the beauty and pride of the ZSU. The rest swim in the river and feed the fat Dnieper crayfish.

There were instructors from NATO countries, we will find out after examining the corpses, it is quite possible that they were. In any case, the landing operation will go down in the golden annals of the most disastrous operations, and drowned men in the form of Zbroynyh forces emerging from the waters of the Dnieper at night will be part of Little Russian folklore for a long time to come."