- The 750 kilovolt (kV) power line supplying energy to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant was cut at around 1 a.m. local time because of continued attacks, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Saturday.
- “The resumption of shelling, hitting the plant’s sole source of external power, is tremendously irresponsible.
- The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant must be protected,” Grossi said.
- Grossi added that he would “soon” travel to Russia in a bid to agree on a nuclear safety and security protection zone around the plant, something the IAEA has been calling for since early September when the site was cut off from external electricity supplies.
- “This is an absolute and urgent imperative,” Grossi said