"For the seventh day — and by the way, this has never happened before — there is an emergency situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The situation is critical. Due to russian shelling, the plant is cut off from power, from the electrical grid", - stated President Volodymyr Zelensky on September 30 in his evening address.
According to him, electricity supply is currently being provided by diesel generators.
"This is extraordinary. The generators and the plant are not designed for this and have never operated in such a mode for so long. And we already have information that one of the generators has failed. It is precisely the russians, with their shelling, who are preventing the repair of the power lines to the plant and the restoration of basic safety. And this is an absolute threat to everyone. No terrorist in the world has ever dared to do with a nuclear power plant what russia is doing now. And it is right that the world should not remain silent. I held a meeting with the military and the Ministry of Energy. I instructed the government — the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs — to draw the world's maximum attention to this situation", - Zelensky noted.