According to the operator, the fires in the area of the thermal power plant that supplies electricity to the nuclear reactors led to the disconnection of the last power line that connected to the Ukrainian network.
“The other three lines were previously damaged in terrorist attacks” from Russia, Energoatom added.
Without light
For their part, the regional authorities installed by Russia said there were power cuts in the city of Zaporizhia, while some towns in the southern province of Kherson, neighboring it and under Russian control, were left without electricity or water.
However, they later stated that “electricity supply to all cities and districts of Zaporizhia was restored” from the plant.
Governor Yevhen Balitski said the outage was caused by an attack by Ukrainian forces on power lines in the area of the Zaporizhia power plant.
Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of the bombing of the plant, which is located in the southern Ukrainian province of Zaporizhia and is the largest in Europe.
Record
The attacks, which began in late July, forced Energoatom, the company that operates Ukraine’s four nuclear power plants, to shut down four of the six reactors, which power some 4 million homes.
Ukraine also accuses Russia of storing heavy weapons at the plant and using it as a base for bombing.
Moscow denies having deployed weapons at the plant and assures that it only installed units to guarantee the security of the place.
However, the lack of independent access to the plant makes it impossible to verify what is happening there. The UN asked to allow an inspection of the place to avoid possible accidents.
Argentinian
In this sense, the head of the UN nuclear inspectors, the Argentine Rafael Grossi, assured yesterday that he was close to closing an agreement to be able to visit the plant.
“We are very, very close” to an agreement with Russia to inspect the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, said Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), visiting Paris.
After meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, the head of the IAEA, which has warned of a possible devastating atomic accident due to hostilities near the plant, told France 24 news channel that the operation is “extremely complex”.
“We have to go there, we have to stabilize the situation, we have to ensure an IAEA presence soon,” said Grossi, who said he expected the visit to take place in a matter of “days.”
pressures
The United States, the European Union, the UN and NATO have called on Russia to withdraw troops and allow IAEA inspection.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu yesterday highlighted the importance of an IAEA visit to the plant and assured that Moscow is ready to provide the necessary assistance to the Vienna-based agency’s inspectors.
The Ukrainian Parliament’s human rights commissioner, Dmitro Lubinets, accused the Russian Army of killing three plant workers and detaining 26 others during the occupation.
According to Lubinets, the three workers were killed by beatings or shelling while Moscow accuses the detainees of “passing information about the movement and location of Russian military equipment” in the region.
Lubinets also called on the UN and IAEA to speed up the establishment of the demilitarized zone around the plant and add protections for their personnel to ensure the maintenance of the facility.
Source: Ambito
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