Officials at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear facility announced Saturday that electrical service has been reestablished to the plant following successful repairs to the Ferrosplavnaya-1 transmission line.
“All systems and equipment at the ZNPP are operating normally,” the management said via its Telegram channel.
The repair work was made possible through a brief local truce arranged on Friday by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog organization.
Hours after the repair incident occurred, the Russian state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom claimed Ukraine had intentionally broken the ceasefire by launching a drone strike that wounded at least three individuals.
Russian forces captured the Zaporizhzhia facility, which stands as Europe’s biggest nuclear plant with six reactors, during the initial phase of Moscow’s military campaign in Ukraine. Since then, both nations have blamed each other for conducting military operations that threaten nuclear security.
While the facility currently produces no electricity, it requires external electrical supply to prevent nuclear fuel stored there from overheating.
This recent ceasefire marked the sixth such agreement arranged since late last year to enable power line maintenance work.
