Updated On: 27 August, 2022 09:08 AM IST | Kyiv | Agencies
Ukraine president says world narrowly avoided a radiation disaster as electricity to Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was cut due to Russian shelling

A Russian serviceman guards an area of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in territory under Russian military control in May. Pic/AP
Ukraine is trying to resume operations at two reactors at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, regional governor Oleksandr Starukh said on Friday.
“The technicians worked and restored electricity supply and currently the sixth block is at 10per cent capacity. The fifth block is - according to our information - in the process of being restored,” Starukh said. One of the six reactors was reconnected to the Ukrainian grid later, state nuclear company Energoatom said.