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Ukraine's overseas curate accused Russia connected Sunday (October 12, 2025) of deliberately severing the outer powerfulness enactment to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness presumption successful bid to nexus the works to Moscow's powerfulness grid.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Moscow was attempting to trial a reconnection to Russia's grid.
Ukraine has agelong feared that Moscow would effort to redirect the plant's output to its grid. But Russian officials person denied immoderate volition of trying to restart the plant, seized by Moscow's forces successful the aboriginal weeks of the February 2022 penetration of Ukraine.
The works produces nary energy astatine the moment, but has been without an outer energy root for astir 3 weeks. Officials person relied connected exigency diesel generators to unafraid the powerfulness needed to support the substance chill wrong the installation and defender against a meltdown.
"Russia intentionally broke the plant’s transportation with the Ukrainian grid successful bid to forcefully trial reconnection with the Russian grid," Sybiha wrote connected X successful English. He denounced the "attempted theft of a peaceful Ukrainian atomic facility".
"Moscow tries to fool the IAEA and the full method and diplomatic assemblage by pretending that the occupation is caused by anyone different than itself," Sybiha said.
Each broadside has accused the different of shelling that caused the enactment outage.
The IAEA, the U.N.'s atomic watchdog, said past week that the process of re-establishing the outer nexus was underway and has repeatedly called connected some sides to refrain from actions that compromise atomic safety.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said successful his nightly video address, that it was not successful Russia's interests to reconstruct information astatine the plant. He said the IAEA needed to found "a clearer, much honorable position".
There was nary contiguous Russian absorption to the Ukrainian allegations.
Last week, the Interfax quality bureau quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov arsenic saying determination were nary grounds to restart the Zaporizhzhia atomic works for present successful the lack of an outer powerfulness source. Before that report, Russia's authorities atomic corp Rosatom was quoted arsenic saying it was preparing to restart the plant.
