Electricity from the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station is again disrupted to non-occupied Ukraine (story updated)

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, which accounts for roughly 20 percent of Ukraine’s total electricity production, is reportedly no longer feeding power to the parts of the country still under Ukrainian control. On Friday, the head of the collaborationist administration in the Zaporizhzhia region, Vladimir Rogov, accused the Ukrainian military of severing the fourth and final power line that physically delivered the nuclear plant’s energy across the Dnipro River. The power station’s electricity is now reaching only Russian-occupied areas of eastern Ukraine, Rogov said, adding that the safety situation at the plant is “under control.”

On the morning of August 26, Ukraine’s Energoatom National Nuclear Energy Generating Company reported that the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station remained completely disconnected from the nation’s electrical grid, adding that crews were working to resume power output by reconnecting two of the station’s power blocks.

Update. One of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station’s power blocks was reconnected to Ukraine’s electrical grid at 2:04 p.m., local time, on August 26, Energoatom said in a statement.

Throughout August, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station has come under artillery fire, endangering the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. Moscow and Kyiv have blamed each other for the attacks. On August 13, Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak warned that Russian attacks were targeting the parts of the power plant that feed southern Ukraine. “The goal is to disconnect us from the station and blame the Ukrainian army for it,” he said.