The leader of the International Atomic Energy Agency said getting the plant reconnected to outside power was a “temporary relief in a still untenable situation.”
In a highly anticipated report, nuclear experts who crossed a battlefield to inspect Europe’s largest nuclear plant called for Russia and Ukraine to halt all military activity around the complex.
The team from the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog reached the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia plant for the first time since the war began, despite fresh shelling each side blamed on the other.
At the U.N. Security Council, Russia and its critics traded barbs over the nuclear plant on the front lines of its war in Ukraine, with each side accusing the other of courting catastrophe.
Moscow accused Ukraine of striking near spent-fuel storage at the Zaporizhzhia power plant, while Ukrainian intelligence said it was a move by Russia to destroy infrastructure.