Vienna, 4 July 2025 (dpa/MIA) – The power supply to the nuclear power plant in Ukraine's south-eastern Zaporizhzhya region has failed completely, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Friday.

The supply failed for the ninth time during the war in Ukraine, but the first time since the end of 2023, according to the IAEA.

The plant "currently relies on power from its emergency diesel generators, underlining [the] extremely precarious nuclear safety situation," the IAEA posted on X, citing its head, Rafael Grossi.

Located in the Russian-held city of Enerhodar on the southern shore of the Dnipro river, the nuclear power plant is the largest in Europe.

The cooling systems of its six shutdown reactors require a stable power supply to avoid a breach of safety norms.

The Ukrainian side attributed the latest safety alert to Russian shelling.

The IAEA has played a central role in protecting and monitoring the condition and safety of Ukraine's nuclear power plants since the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022.

The agency regularly sends teams of experts to the active reactor sites in the western regions of Rivne and Khmelnytskyi and has been permanently present at the Zaporizhzhya plant since September 2022.

The site has been under Russian control since March of that year.

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