{"id":203721,"date":"2022-08-27T01:30:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T22:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=203721"},"modified":"2022-08-27T01:30:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T22:30:39","slug":"day-184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/day-184","title":{"rendered":"Day 184: situation at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, strike on Russian military base in occupied Luhansk region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Zaporizhzhia power plant reconnected to Ukraine grid. Russia plans to completely cut it off, connect to Russian grid<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was reconnected to the Ukrainian power grid after one of the power units of the plant that was stopped on Thursday, was connected to the grid. Capacity was being added, Ukrainian state nuclear energy company Energoatom said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The power unit was reconnected on Friday, August 26, at 2:04 p.m. The equipment and safety system operate as normal.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier on Friday, Ukrenergo, Ukrainian electricity transmission system operator restored two transmission lines damaged by the Russian attacks. The lines now service the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russian forces conduct final preparations to disconnect the nuclear station from the Ukrainian power grid, representative of Ukraine\u2019s defense intelligence Vadym Skybytskyi said, as quoted by RBC Ukraine on Friday, August 26. The Russians are waiting for the right moment, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey have tested and set up everything. They have reconnected all transmission lines running from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant toward Kakhovka and Melitopol. According to our data, at the end of July, they already tested the possibility of connecting the system to the Russian power grid,\u201d Skybytskyi said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Russians are determined to connect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to the Russian energy grid to fully supply Crimea with electricity. They planned it in the first half of August, but they did not succeed then,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skybytskyi also commented on a deployment of the Russian troops and equipment at the plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey use a nuclear power plant as a cover to deploy their troops there. They also intensely use the area around the plant and the city of Enerhodar to conduct strikes on the government-controlled territory. It is also easy to stage provocations both at the station and in Enerhodar from where they are stationed,\u201d Skybytskyi said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ahead of IAEA visit to Zaporizhzhia power plant, Russians torture staff to silence them about risks<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Agents of the Russian Security Service (FSB) torture Ukrainian staff at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to prevent them from telling UN safety inspectors about the risks at the site, The Telegraph said in a recent piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serving and recently escaped workers describe an atmosphere of fear and intimidation. Multiple staff members had been arrested at home or on their way to work, an employee who spoke to The Telegraph said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe all worry about the possible visit of the IAEA representatives. That they will set up some provocations and then blame them on Ukraine. It feels like that\u2019s exactly what they plan to do,\u201d one engineer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russians plan to minimize the number of Ukrainian staff present at the station during the IAEA visit, the workers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey grabbed our management by the balls: for the period of the visit, they plan to minimize the presence of our staff, and put a couple of their representatives in every control room, who will loudly shout how they were waiting for \u2018liberation from the Kyiv regime\u2019,\u201d he went on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine takes out 200 paratroopers as missile strike hits Russian base in occupied Kadiyivka<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Ukrainian troops launched a missile strike on occupied Kadiyivka, in Luhansk region, and took out about 200 Russian paratroopers stationed in the \u201cDonbas\u201d hotel, head of the Luhansk regional military administration Serhiy Hayday said. The Russian forces have used the hotel as their base since 2014, he added. The Russians say that the Ukrainian troops launched 10 missiles from HIMARS systems on Kadiyivka on the morning of August 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the full-scale invasion, Russia has lost about 46,250 soldiers, of which 400 in the past day, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said. The Russian forces took the heaviest losses on the Donetsk axis.