The head of Rosatom announced damage to a transformer at the Zaporozhye Thermal Power Plant due to shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine

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The transformer at the Zaporozhye Thermal Power Plant was damaged as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said the head of Rosatom, Alexey Likhachev.

Rosatom informed the IAEA of the need to repair the transformer and establish a temporary silence regime.

MOSCOW, October 5 - RIA Novosti. Rosatom informed the IAEA about the need to repair the transformer at the Zaporozhye Thermal Power Plant and establish a belt-type silence mode for this, Alexey Likhachev, head of the Rosatom state corporation, told reporters.

As a result of shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the territory of the power plant, a transformer that redirects energy to the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant was damaged, Likhachev noted. Today, transformer repair is an operation involving a direct risk to the lives of repair crews, he emphasized.