Kyiv: Authorities installed by Moscow in the nearby town of Enrhodar announced on Monday that the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine was still under Russian control, after a Ukrainian official suggested Russian forces were getting ready to leave.

The media are actively circulating false reports which claim that Russia is preparing to abandon Enrhöder and (the plant). The information is untrue, the Russia-founded administration said on the Telegram messaging service.

The head of Ukraine's state-owned nuclear power company said on Sunday there were signs Russian forces may be ready to abandon the massive Zaporizhia plant, which they invaded Ukraine and seized in March.

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Both Russia and Ukraine, which experienced the worst nuclear accident in history at Chernobyl in 1986, have accused the other of shelling the Zaporizhzhia reactor complex.

Nuclear disaster has been threatened by both sides. Europe's largest nuclear power plant will seek to establish a safety zone around it, according to the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Mykhailo Podolić, an adviser to Ukraine's president, said late Sunday that he had no doubt that Russian forces would leave the plant, where Ukrainian workers are still working. These employees mainly live in Enerhöder.

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Podolić told Ukrainian television that "Ukraine will take it (the plant) back" as the defense line "is starting to retreat to the borders of the Russian Federation."

About 30 Russian soldiers were wounded in the fighting near Enrhodar, according to the Ukrainian military, which reported the incident on Monday. Late last week, the Ukrainian military also destroyed six pieces of Russian military hardware.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin moved in September to capture the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia, where his forces claim partial control. The action was considered illegal by Kyiv and its Western allies.