Greenpeace Ukraine reported on September 27 that satellite imagery shows damage to the last Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant power line two to five kilometers north of the ZNPP distribution station, suggesting Russian forces conducted sabotage against the line.
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Russian forces likely conducted sabotage against the ZNPP power line
Russia's state nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom, is complicit in war crimes including the detention and torture of staff at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), adding to a growing risk of a nuclear disaster
ZNPP without external power for more than 72 hours, emergency generators at maximum capacity
Russia artificially creating crisis to consolidate control over plant
Russia using nuclear power plant as lever in negotiation process
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