The month-long blackout at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant ended on Oct. 23, after suspected Russian sabotage disconnected it from Ukraine's power grid on Sept. 23.
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Russian troops struck a power line on Sept. 23, severing the plant's connection to Ukraine's electrical grid
The Zaporizhzhia NPP has recovered from the blackout: power engineers have restored power to the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP. This allowed the plant to be brought out of the full - the tenth - blackout regime in which it had been for the past month.
The reason for the month-long power outage was the actions of the Russian occupation forces, who are systematically shelling and damaging the power lines connecting the ZNPP with the unified power system of Ukraine.
Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, Ukrainian power engineers have restored the power lines to the plant 42 times.
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