Power back at the huge nuclear plant in Zaporizhzhia
The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog (IAEA) says Ukraine’s huge Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant has once again started getting electricity from the national grid.
Power lines attached to the plant were damaged by shelling in the area.
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All six of its reactors are in a cold shutdown state, but the plant requires external power to cool its reactors and avoid the risk of meltdown.
The IAEA says the situation at the Russian military-held plant has improved but remains uncertain.
A team of nuclear experts from the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) visited Zaporizhia, Europe’s largest nuclear plant, earlier in the month.
The visit was followed by increasing calls from Ukraine and the international community for a security inspection following reports of shelling.
Both Russia and Ukraine blamed each other for the shelling of the facility in southeastern Ukraine.
Following the IAEA’s first inspection, the agency announced that it would maintain a permanent presence to monitor the situation.
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On Saturday, team members at the site learned that one of the four main external power lines damaged by the shelling had been repaired, allowing electricity to be drawn directly from the national grid, the IAEA tweeted on Saturday.
Further east in Ukraine, the discovery of mass graves in Izium has prompted the EU presidency to call for an international tribunal for war crimes.
Hundreds of bodies were found buried in a forest on the edge of the city, which had recently come under Ukrainian control after a Russian military retreat.
Many of them are said to be civilians, women and children.
Ukraine says it believes war crimes have been committed.
“In the 21st century, such attacks against the civilian population are unimaginable and despicable,” said Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavski.
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“We must not ignore this. We all stand for the punishment of war criminals,” he wrote in a tweet. “I call for the early establishment of a special international tribunal that will prosecute the crime of aggression.”
Fighting broke out on Saturday in the divided eastern region of Donetsk, which is mostly controlled by Russian-backed separatists.
The separatist mayor of the city of Donetsk said four people were killed in a shelling by the Ukrainian government in a central district, while the Ukrainian governor of the Donetsk region accused Russian forces of shelling a thermal power plant in Mykolaivka, causing the area The drinking water supply was disrupted.
Britain’s defense ministry says Ukrainian troops are continuing their counter-offensive in the country’s northeast, after successfully capturing territory from Russia in recent days. It said Russia has established a defensive line guarding one of its main supply routes from Belgorod near its border with Ukraine.
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Power back at the huge nuclear plant in Zaporizhzhia
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