The Ukrainian state-owned company Energoatom and the International Atomic Energy Agency have announced the disconnection of the last operating reactor at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye from the Ukrainian electricity grid.

The ministry said in a statement that since the station was disconnected from the external network on Friday, “an emergency line was used to supply the Ukrainian network with electricity.” However, a line connected to a nearby thermal power plant was “deliberately disconnected to put out the fire”, noting that the line “was not damaged” and should be reconnected as soon as possible.

She indicated that Reactor 6 was still “producing the electricity needed to cool the nuclear fuel and keep the site safe”, noting that “it will be brought back online when the emergency line is restored”.

For its part, Energoatom explained the shutdown and shutdown of reactor No. 6 as a “fire caused by the bombing,” and also damaged the power line connecting this unit to the Ukrainian network. In his statement

This reactor was the only one operating of six at the plant in the south of the country, the largest in Europe and occupied by Russian troops.

The International Atomic Energy Agency, whose specialists are on site, announced last Saturday the closure of reactor No. 5 due to damage to the power line after the explosion. The remaining four reactors in Zaporozhye have not been operating for several weeks.

The latest incident came after a Friday visit by an International Agency delegation to the station, which Kyiv and Moscow have been accusing of bombing for weeks, raising fears of a nuclear holocaust.