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Ukrainian engineers have restored “much needed” back-up power to a key Russian-occupied nuclear power plant after shelling robbed it of access to external electricity twice in the past week, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog said on Friday.

The logo of the International Atomic Energy Agency is seen at their headquarters during a board of governors meeting, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Vienna, Austria, June 7, 2021.The logo of the International Atomic Energy Agency is seen at their headquarters during a board of governors meeting, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Vienna, Austria, June 7, 2021.

He said an IAEA team at the site had reported back that two back-up power lines connecting the plant to switchyards at a nearby thermal power plant had been repaired in recent days. This week Grossi shuttled from Moscow to Kyiv in an effort to establish a nuclear safety and security protection zone around the site.

Concerns have mounted since August about the risks of shelling at or near Zaporizhzhia, Europe’s largest nuclear power station.

 

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