Overview

• The IAEA said its team heard about 15 blasts near the Zaporizhzhia plant, with two rounds landing roughly 1.25 km from the site, and Director General Rafael Grossi warned that nuclear safety risks are growing.
• Zaporizhzhia has had no external power since September 23 and is relying on eight emergency diesel generators to cool shutdown reactors and spent fuel in its longest off-site power loss of the war.
• Ukraine’s grid operator reported outages in Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk and Sumy, with Chernihiv enforcing rolling cuts as repairs continue under ongoing attacks.
• Energy Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk said gas imports will rise by about 30%, supported by $500 million from the EBRD and $300 million from the EIB under European Commission guarantees, with LNG imports under consideration.
• Naftogaz reported Russia’s largest strike on its gas production sites on October 3 causing significant and in some cases critical damage, as the EU-backed Ukraine Energy Support Fund flagged a widening roughly €400 million gap for urgent equipment.