KYIV (Reuters) – The capacity of one unit of the nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine has been reduced after Russian attacks damaged the country’s electricity transmission system, nuclear company Energoatom said on Wednesday.
“There have been no accidents at the nuclear power plant of southern Ukraine,” Energoatom said on Telegram Messenger.
Instead, the company said production was reduced after “hostile shelling of Ukrenergo’s infrastructure” and “significant fluctuations in the parameters of the electricity grid.”
Energoatom said electricity generation at the unit had been reduced by 33%, but did not specify when this happened.
Ukraine’s energy infrastructure has been subject to increasing Russian missile and drone attacks in recent months.
Officials have said the country has lost about half of its generating capacity and now relies mainly on energy generated by three nuclear power plants.
A fourth, the largest in Europe, the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, was occupied by Russia at the beginning of the war and is currently not in operation.
