Likhachev announced the shelling of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the territory of the Zaporozhye Thermal Power Plant

MOSCOW, October 5 - RIA Novosti. For the last two weeks, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been shelling the territory of the Zaporozhye Thermal Power Plant, on which the safety of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant depends, said Alexey Likhachev, General Director of the Rosatom State Corporation.

ZNPP is located on the left bank of the Dnieper near the city of Energodar. In October 2022, the nuclear power plant became the property of the Russian Federation. Generation at the power units was stopped in September 2022. Since April 2024, all units of the station have been in cold shutdown mode.

“For the last two weeks, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been systematically shelling the territory of the Zaporozhye Thermal Power Plant, the second energy facility on the territory of Energodar. The enterprise is not nuclear, therefore it is not interesting to the world community. At the same time, the safety of the nuclear power plant directly depends on the performance of devices located on the territory of the Zaporozhye Thermal Power Plant. We are talking about electrical equipment located on the territory of the Zaporozhye Thermal Power Plant and redirecting electricity from high-voltage lines “Ferroalloy” to the Zaporozhye NPP,” Likhachev told reporters.

According to him, two weeks ago, due to constant shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the transformer from which this equipment was powered was damaged.

“And for two weeks now, the operability of these critical systems has been ensured by the operation of emergency diesel generators. In normal life, repairing a transformer is a routine matter. Today, this is an operation that involves a direct risk to the lives of our repair crews,” he explained.