(Reuters) -Ukraine’s foreign minister accused Russia on Sunday of deliberately severing the external power line to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in order to link the plant to Moscow’s power grid.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Moscow was attempting to test a reconnection to Russia’s grid.

Ukraine has long feared that Moscow would try to redirect the plant’s output to its grid. But Russian officials have denied any intention of trying to restart the plant, seized by Moscow’s forces in the early weeks of the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

The plant produces no electricity at the moment, but has been without an external electricity source for nearly three weeks. Officials have relied on emergency diesel generators to secure the power needed to keep

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