Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is “critical” as the facility has been without power for seven days.
“It has been seven days now. There has never been anything like this before,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly address on Tuesday.
One of the diesel generators providing emergency power to the plant is no longer working, Zelenskyy said, a week after external power lines went down.
“Russian shelling has cut the plant off from the electricity network,” the Ukrainian leader said.
“This is a threat to everyone. No terrorist in the world has ever dared to do with a nuclear power plant what Russia is doing now.”
The outage is the longest the Russian-occupied plant has gone without power since Moscow’s full-scale inv