The Ukrainian Ministry of Energy reported on Tuesday that a blackout at the infamous Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) was caused by Russian air attacks.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said during his regular video address on Tuesday night that Russian strikes have also taken the Zaporizhzhia NPP off the grid for seven days in a row.

“This is the seventh day. There has never before been such an emergency situation at the Zaporizhzhia plant. The situation is critical. Russian shelling has cut the plant off from the electricity network,” Zelensky said.

“The generators and the plant were not designed for this, have never operated in this mode for long, and we already have information that one generator has failed,” he warned , referring to the diesel generators that supply

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