In recent weeks, concerns about an accident at the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhya have grown.
The plant is then controlled at the beginning of March by Russia and the information about shelling at the nuclear power plant is dense.
Russia and Ukraine have consistently accused each other of endangering security in the area.
So also after Thursday's announcement that it had been disconnected from the electricity grid.
"The intruders' actions caused a complete disconnection of the nuclear power plant (Zaporizjzja) from the power grid, the first in the plant's history," writes Energoatom on Telegram.
Own electricity needs secured
According to the operator, who still has staff at the plant, the shutdown occurred after a fire broke out at a nearby thermal power plant, which in turn caused the fourth and final line between the nuclear plant and the Ukrainian power grid to break.
The other three lines have previously been destroyed in the fighting, according to Energoatom.
However, the nuclear power plant's own electricity needs are deemed to be secured.
The operator states that they are working to connect parts of the facility again and that the security systems are working normally, reports Reuters.
Russia accuses Ukraine
That Zaporizhzhya has been disconnected from the electricity grid is also confirmed by the Russian side, but there is a completely different picture of who is responsible.
Representatives of Russia's military rule in the region claim that Ukrainian shelling caused the crash, state-controlled Russia Today writes.
The UN's atomic energy agency, the IAEA, has repeatedly warned that the fighting in Zaporizhzhya could end in disaster and has demanded that the organization's own inspectors be allowed into the nuclear power plant.
Negotiations between the IAEA, Russia and Ukraine are ongoing and on Thursday the organization's director general Rafael Grossi expressed that progress had been made.
- We are very, very close, Grossi told France24, adding that a visit could be "days away".
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The nuclear power expert: "Very serious situation" Photo: SVT