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The Moscow-appointed occupation administration has denied that the Russian army is preparing to withdraw from the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, Reuters reported.

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She made the comments today after the head of Ukraine's state nuclear operator Energoatom, Petro Kotin, said yesterday that there were signs of a possible Russian withdrawal from the nuclear power plant in the south-east of the country.

"The media is actively spreading false news that Russia is allegedly planning to withdraw from (the city of) Energodar and leave (the Zaporizhzhia NPP near the city). This information is not true," the Moscow-appointed administration in the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia said in Telegram area.

Echoing the claims of Energoatom's boss, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said last night that he had no doubt that Russia would withdraw from the Zaporizhia NPP.

Russian forces are beginning to withdraw to the country's borders and Ukraine will regain control of the nuclear plant, Podolyak said.

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced today that six units of Russian military equipment were destroyed and about 30 Russian soldiers were wounded in fighting near Energodar late last week.

The claims of both sides in the conflict have not been independently verified, Reuters notes.

Many employees of the Zaporizhzhia NPP live in Energodar.

Russia seized Europe's largest nuclear power plant in March.

The two sides in the conflict accuse each other of shelling the Zaporizhzhia NPP.

Each accuses the other of creating the risk of a nuclear catastrophe.

The Moscow-appointed authorities in Nova Kakhovka reported that a woman was killed and a man wounded during Ukrainian shelling of the town in the partially occupied Kherson region in southern Ukraine last night, TASS reported.

The head of "Energoatom": Russian forces are preparing to withdraw from the Zaporizhzhia NPP

Infrastructure was also damaged.

On Friday, the occupation administration reported seven civilians killed in Ukrainian shelling of Nova Kakhovka, a strategic town on the eastern bank of the Dnieper.

Earlier this month, Russian armed forces withdrew from the territories they had occupied in the Kherson region on the west bank of the river.

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