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IAEA-Brokered Local Truce Opens Repair Window at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant

On-site IAEA monitoring supports demining to restore a severed 330 kV supply line crucial to cooling.

Overview

  • A locally limited ceasefire reportedly took effect Friday morning around the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia facility to allow repair access.
  • The IAEA mediated the arrangement and has experts at the site to oversee the work.
  • Minesweeping is under way to provide safe routes for the repair teams.
  • Crews plan to restore a 330 kV external power line interrupted on 10 February, while a 750 kV line remains intact.
  • Rosatom says the job, including work on the outdoor switchyard and a ferroalloy line, will take at least a week, and it described this as the fifth such local truce in six months; Ukrainian authorities have not commented.