Go to the media bankThe building on the territory of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. File photoMOSCOW, September 5At the Zaporozhye NPP, after the shelling of power lines by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, only the sixth power unit is operating, electricity continues to be supplied, including to the territories controlled by Kyiv, said the head of the administration of Energodar Alexander Volga.According to him, , the situation at the station remains tense, but the specialists are coping. «Now the situation is working, the station specialists are coping with emergency situations. Due to the disconnection of power lines, which were hit by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, there are a number of routine maintenance. As part of these measures, the fifth power unit is turned off , the sixth one is working normally and supplies energy to the general energy system,» Volga said on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel. He specified that electricity is also supplied to the territories controlled by Ukraine «without fail.» bank of the Dnieper near the town of Energodar. This is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe in terms of the number of units and installed capacity — the plant has six power units with a capacity of 1 gigawatt each. Since March, it has been under the protection of the Russian military. The Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized that this step was justified in order to avoid leakage of nuclear and radioactive materials. The Ukrainian military continues to regularly shell Energodar and the territory of the Zaporizhzhya NPP adjacent to the city.
