“Complex Repair Plan” Continues to Restore Power to Ukraine Nuclear Plant, UN Watchdog Says
Work has begun to repair damaged power at Ukraine’s Zaporizhia Power Plant, the head of the UN’s Flear Watchdog said on Saturday. Repairs are expected to end the four-day week outage that sees manufacturers back up.
The forces of Russia and Ukraine are establishing special facilities to end the repairs so that they will be carried out safely, said the Atomic Energy Agency in a communication with the Head of Rafael Grossi. The organization announced the restoration of the energy at the site as a ‘security and nuclear safety’. “
“Both parties are engaged with the IAEA to be able to implement a complex program of corrective actions going forward,” the statement said.
Ukraine’s Minister of Energy Svitlana Grynchuk confirmed that Ukrainian experts are involved in restoring the power lines at the plant and said that its stable operation and connection to the Ukrainian power grid is important to prevent a nuclear incident. He also said it was the 42nd time since the start of the full-scale attack on Russia in February 2022 that the power lines at the plant were down.
it has been restored. Ukraine has previously accused Russia of targeting the country power grid.
The Zaporizhia plant, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, has been operating on a general scale since September 23, when The last remaining power line was removed In the attacks by Russia and Ukraine each was blamed on the other side, officials said.
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The plant has been under Russian control since the start of the full-scale attack on Ukraine and is no longer operational, but it needs reliable power to cool its six reactors and defuse any catastrophic events.
Elsewhere, Russia continued its bombardment of Ukraine, launching three missiles and 164 drones overnight, Ukraine’s Air Force said on Saturday. It said that Ukrainian forces shot down 136 drones.
Two people were injured after Russian drones targeted a gas station in the Zarichny region of Sumy and Sungy in RoundAist Ukraine, local officials said. They were two women, aged 51 and 53, according to the district gov. Eleh hryhorov.
Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday that its air defenses had shot down 41 Ukrainian drones overnight.
The operation began one day after President Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House and two days after he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone. Mr Trump called the meeting with Zelenskyy “very interesting, and very kind” in the social post and urged the two leaders to end the war.
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Their discussions involved the US providing Ukraine with Tomahawk Microsoliles, possibly in exchange for Ukrainian Drones, CBS News has previously predicted. Details of the talks were not shared, although Mr Trump said he believed sending missiles would escalate the war.
Mr. Trump announced earlier this week that he will meet Putin in Budapest soon. As Zelenskyy arrived at the White House on Friday, Mr Trump told reporters he believed he could persuade Putin to end the war. During Mr Trump’s time in the oval office he believes he and Zelenskyy are making great progress in “ending the war.
Russia has not indicated it wants to end the war, and Mr Trump has expressed frustration with Putin in recent months. The first lady Melania Trump said last week He had been working with the Russian leader to return Ukrainian children to their families, a move Mr Trump said he personally took.
