An armored vehicle belonging to the UN’s atomic watchdog was hit by a drone strike on its way to inspect a Ukrainian nuclear power plant on Tuesday, in an attack President Volodymyr Zelensky has blamed on Russia.

A drone hit and severely damaged an official vehicle of the International Atomic Energy Agency on the road to Ukraine's Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on Tuesday, the agency's head said.

The United States has condemned the Russian drone strike on a car belonging to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Source: US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink on Х (Twitter),

A drone struck a service vehicle of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as it was en route to the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the IAEA press service reported. According to the IAEA,

A vehicle belonging to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was severely damaged in a drone attack on the road to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant on Tuesday, IAEA head Rafael Grossi said.

On Dec. 10, a Russian drone struck and severely damaged an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) service vehicle on its way to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), President Volodymyr Zelensky reported.