Ukraine accused Moscow of spreading "fake" information after Russian officials said a Ukrainian drone hit the Moscow-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

The head of Ukraine's center for countering disinformation, Lieutenant Andriy Kovalenko, said Russia was intensifying a "campaign of provocation and fakes" after it claimed that Ukrainian forces attacked the plant on Sunday.

Russia is attacking the station "with drones, pretending that the threat to the plant and nuclear safety is coming from Ukraine," Kovalenko said.

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, the largest such facility in Europe, has been occupied by Russian forces since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. 

Russia's nuclear agency Rosatom said there was a "series of attacks" Sunday and Monday.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which has experts at the plant, said the attacks caused a "physical impact" on one reactor and resulted in one casualty, but nuclear safety was not compromised.