![]() ![]() Police inspect damage from a Russian missile attack in a residential district of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 9, 2023. In January the IAEA announced plans to establish a "continuous presence" at all Ukrainian nuclear power plants "to help prevent a nuclear accident," but the continued fighting around Zaporizhzhia has made it impossible at that facility. What are we doing? How can we sit here in this room this morning and allow this to happen? This cannot go on. Let me remind you, this is the largest nuclear power station in Europe. "This is the sixth time - let me say it again - sixth time, that ZNPP has lost all off-site power and has had to operate in this emergency mode. And if we allow this to continue time after time then one day our luck will run out," Grossi told the agency's Board of Governors in Austria, according to a statement. Rafael Grossi, the head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency, the IAEA, issued a fresh appeal for a demilitarized safe-zone around the Russian-held plant, saying he was "astonished" by the fact that such a sensitive facility was still being put at risk by the war. If it is impossible to renew the external power supply of the station during this time, an accident with radiation consequences for the whole world may occur," Energoatom warned Thursday when the supply line was severed. Ukraine's nuclear power operator Energoatom said the "last power line between the occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP and the Ukrainian power system was cut off as a result of rocket attacks." The company said it was the sixth time the sprawling facility had been cut off from the nation's electricity grid since Russian troops captured it last year. A view of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant as the war between Russia and Ukraine continues, from Nikopol, Ukraine, March 3, 2023. A barrage of missiles and explosive drones rained down in a blistering assault that struck cities from the capital Kyiv to the vital southern port of Odesa, and all the way to the far-western city of Lviv.Īt least nine people were killed, according to Ukrainian officials, and millions more were plunged into the cold and dark as the attacks hit power infrastructure - including a strike that Ukrainian officials said briefly cut the vital electricity supply yet again to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Europe's largest atomic energy facility. ![]() Dnipro, Ukraine - Russia hit Ukraine on Thursday with its most punishing attacks in nearly a month. ![]()
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