Overview
- Greenpeace Ukraine, with McKenzie Intelligence Services, told the IAEA Board it found no evidence of Ukrainian shelling of ZNPP switchyards or lines and linked recent outages to Russian strikes and suspected sabotage.
- Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called for demilitarization and the plant’s return, urged sanctions on Rosatom, and demanded the release of detained ZNPP staff.
- Ukraine’s Center for Strategic Communications (SPRAVDI) alleged Russia restricts IAEA access, stages site conditions ahead of visits, and disrupts expert rotations to obscure the situation.
- IAEA-supervised work to restore the Ferrosplavnaya-1 external line is ongoing under a local ceasefire after repeated damage left the plant reliant on limited connections.
- The facility remains under Russian control in cold shutdown with constrained cooling since the Kakhovka dam’s destruction, as the plant’s director accused Ukraine of shelling nearby Energodar and called it an indirect truce violation.