Overview

• The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has had no external power for nearly three weeks and is running on diesel generators to maintain safety systems.
• Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said the cut was a deliberate move to trial integration into Russia’s grid, describing it as unprecedented in nuclear energy.
• Ukraine urged the IAEA to stop what it calls illegal technical transformations by Rosatom and to push for the facility’s return to Ukrainian control.
• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called this the plant’s longest blackout and said Ukrainian teams can repair power lines but are impeded by Russian attacks.
• The IAEA said its team heard incoming and outgoing shelling near the site on Oct. 6, as Russian media blamed Ukraine and Kyiv called that claim a provocation.