KYIV, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that his army is targeting Russian soldiers occupying a nuclear power plant in the south of the country.

Russia and Ukraine have traded accusations over multiple recent incidents of shelling at the Zaporizhzhia facility, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. Russian troops captured the station early in the war.

“Every Russian soldier who either shoots at the plant, or shoots using the plant as cover, must understand that he becomes a special target for our intelligence agents, for our special services, for our army,” Zelenskyy said in an address on Saturday evening.

Zelenskyy, who did not give any details, repeated accusations that Russia was using the plant as a form of nuclear blackmail.

Ukraine’s defence intelligence agency earlier warned of new Russian “provocations” around the plant while the exiled mayor of the town where the plant is located said it had come under renewed Russian shelling.