IAEA's Grossi visits Kyiv ahead of trip to nuclear plant

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi talks to members of the IAEA expert team at Vienna International Airport before departing for Ukraine, in Vienna, Austria June 12, 2023. Dean Calma/IAEA/Handout via REUTERS

KYIV (Reuters) -U.N. nuclear chief Rafael Grossi visited Kyiv on Tuesday on a trip to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and visit Ukraine's Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after a huge river dam nearby was destroyed last week.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Sunday it needed access to a site near the plant to check water levels after the reservoir lost a large portion of its water because of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam downstream.