Overview

• On August 6, an IAEA inspection team at Zaporizhzhia heard artillery fire near the spent fuel storage for more than an hour, underscoring acute safety dangers
• The plant has depended on a single off-site power line for three months after shelling severed its other ten pre-war connections, raising cooling and reactor safety concerns
• IAEA teams reported near-daily military activity and air-raid alarms at Ukraine’s nuclear sites this week, forcing staff at Khmelnytskyy to seek shelter three times
• Ukraine’s foreign ministry condemned the deployment of Russian military positions on the plant grounds as a deliberate act of nuclear terrorism and a breach of international safety norms
• Kyiv demanded the immediate demilitarization of Zaporizhzhia and the swift return of full operational control to Ukrainian Energoatom