Rare Local Truce Lets Crews Start Fixing Zaporizhzhia’s Lifeline

For the first time in weeks, the world’s riskiest worksite got a sliver of calm. Crews have begun repairing the external power lines feeding Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after a four-week outage that forced the site onto diesel generators. That kept cooling pumps humming, but it was a thin margin for error at Europe’s largest nuclear facility.

This repair run exists because both sides carved out local ceasefire zones around shattered high-voltage corridors. It’s a rare pocket of restraint along a front where artillery has made utility poles a fair target. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s chief, Rafael Grossi, said Ukrainian and Russian counterparts engaged constructively to enable a “comple

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