The UN's atomic guard dog has required a prompt finish to any tactical activity close to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia atomic plant, cautioning of a "genuine gamble of an atomic fiasco".
IAEA boss Rafael Grossi said he was "incredibly worried" by reports of shelling at Europe's biggest thermal energy station.
It comes as Ukraine expressed pieces of the office were "genuinely harmed" by Russian military strikes.
Russia held onto the plant in March.
Russia has kept on its Ukrainian representatives, yet Kyiv blames Russian powers for terminating rockets at non military personnel regions from the site, utilizing "fear strategies".
Friday's strikes underline "the genuine gamble of an atomic catastrophe that could undermine general wellbeing and the climate in Ukraine and then some", Mr Grossi, chief general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said, in a proclamation.
"Any tactical capability coordinated at, or from, the office would add up to behaving recklessly, with possibly devastating outcomes," he added.
Ukrainian staff should have the option to complete their significant obligations "without dangers or strain", he said, adding that the IAEA ought to be permitted to offer specialized help.
"For shielding individuals in Ukraine and somewhere else from an expected atomic mishap, we should regardless of set our disparities and act, presently. The IAEA is prepared," said Mr Grossi, days subsequent to expressing the plant was "all the way crazy".
The administrator of the Zaporizhzhia plant said the Russian rocket strikes had constrained the conclusion of one "power unit", adding that there was a gamble of radioactive holes.
The strikes "caused a serious gamble for the protected activity of the plant", administrator Enerhoatom composed on Telegram.
Moscow said Ukraine did the assault.
The BBC couldn't check the revealed harm at the atomic plant.
In any case, the EU has hit out at Moscow over the most recent shelling - with the coalition's top representative, Josep Borrell, saying it "censures Russia's tactical exercises" around the plant.
"This is a significant and unreliable break of atomic wellbeing rules and one more illustration of Russia's negligence for global standards," he said, and required the IAEA to be conceded admittance to the plant.
Russian powers hold the plant and encompassing regions, near Ukrainian-held domain. It comprises of six compressed water reactors and stores radioactive waste.
Map showing Zaporizhzhia thermal energy station and Nikopol
Regular folks in adjacent Nikopol, which lies across the stream and is still under Ukrainian control, let the BBC know that the Russians were terminating rockets from the region around the plant and moving military equipment into the compound.
Ukraine's President Zelensky said, on Friday, that "any besieging of this site is a bold wrongdoing, a demonstration of dread".
Europe's biggest nuclear plant is dangerously close to the fighting.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused Russia earlier this week of using the plant, which it overran in March, as a military base to launch attacks on Ukrainian forces.
Ukrainian officials have said Russians station troops and store military hardware on the grounds of the power station on the Dnipro river in the south of Ukraine.
But a Russian-installed official in the region told Reuters news agency that Ukrainian forces were using Western-supplied weapons to attack the plant.
The plant is in the city of Enerhodar, in the south-east of Ukraine, along the left bank of the River Dnieper (Dnipro in Ukrainian).
The UK safeguard service says Russia is utilizing the region to send off assaults - exploiting the "safeguarded status" of the thermal energy station to diminish the gamble of for the time being assaults from Ukrainian powers.
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