Zaporizhia NPP reconnected to Ukrainian power grid

According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the power supply to the nuclear power plant was restored after the interruption. The USA fears that Russia wants to feed the electricity into its own grid in the future.

Location in Zaporizhia NPP

• According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Russian-occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine is reconnected to the country’s power grid been. According to Ukrainian information, the nuclear power plant lost its connection to the power grid at least twice during the day, but it “is working again,” the IAEA said on Twitter on Thursday evening.
• after one Power outage in the region are before the last two reactors still in operation were taken off the grid been reported by the operating company Energoatom. Fires broke out in the ash pits of a nearby coal-fired power plant. These would have damaged the power lines to the nuclear power plant.
• In the run-up, large parts of the Zaporizhia and Cherson regions controlled by Russian troops were evacuated power outages reported. The Russian Defense Ministry said the Ukrainian military had shelled Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
• The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) according to their own statements just before an agreement for an inspection of the occupied Ukrainian nuclear power plant Zaporizhia. “We are very, very close,” says IAEA boss Rafael Grossi. The UN agency had announced that it would send experts to the plant within a few days if an agreement was reached with Ukraine and Russia.

Battles / Military

• According to British military experts, Moscow is ready to to use Ukrainian military activities in the vicinity of the occupied nuclear power plant for propaganda purposes. According to the British Ministry of Defense, citing intelligence information, the threat to security around the nuclear power plant comes from the Russian invasion troops.
• In the Ukraine are affected by attacks in the first half of 2022 Cluster bombs killed at least 215 civilians and 474 injured. The Russian armed forces have carried out hundreds of attacks with cluster munitions, the NGO Handicap International said on Thursday. The Ukrainian armed forces have also used cluster munitions several times.

Russia

• Six months after the invasion of Ukraine, Kremlin chief Putin ordered the enlargement of the Russian army. From 2023, the total army strength should be more than two million people include, according to a decree published on Thursday. The number of military personnel alone – including both contract soldiers and conscripts – is to be increased by 137,000 to around 1.15 million.
• The Russian arrested for “discrediting” the Russian army Opposition politician Yevgeny Roisman was provisionally released on Thursday. A court in Yekaterinburg ruled that Roisman could not attend public events or use the internet, Ria Novosti news agency reported. He is also not allowed to send or receive letters.

weapons shipments

• German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has assured citizens to proceed with decisions on arms sales to Ukraine to act “prudently and carefully”. The aim is to support Ukraine, but at the same time prevent the war from escalating so that it does not spread, said the SPD politician on Thursday during a discussion with citizens in Magdeburg.

(Red./APA/Archyde.com/dpa)