According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Ukrainian artillery also struck at night on a power line coming from the fifth power unit of a nuclear power plant near the city of Energodar.

On September 20, it was reported that the special building, the cooling system and the dining room of the Zaporozhye NPP were damaged during the next shelling of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Earlier, in the Kherson region, the power supply from the ZNPP was cut off due to shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.