Ukraine issued a warning about a frontline nuclear power station where it said it believed Moscow was planning a “large-scale provocation” as justification to decouple the plant from the Ukrainian power grid and connect it to Russia’s.

Russia has submitted a letter to the United Nations Security Council warning of planned “provocations” by Ukraine at the Zaporizhzia plant, TASS reported citing a diplomat.

Moscow has rejected international calls to demilitarize the plant and Putin on Friday renewed his accusation that Kyiv was shelling it in a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, according to the Kremlin’s readout.

Russia’s President Putin warned French President Macron that shelling of the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, which he blamed on Kyiv, could result in a large-scale disaster. 

According to Macron’s office, Putin agreed to an International Atomic Energy Agency mission to the plant.

U.S. President Joe Biden’s latest security assistance package for Ukraine includes surveillance drones and for the first time mine-resistant vehicles, according to a senior U.S. defense official.

Putin met with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev during a meeting in Sochi, Russia on Friday.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov attended a news briefing in the sea port in Odesa after restarting grain exports.

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