Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant suffers blackout after drone strike

On the night of 2-3 June, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) experienced its 17th blackout since being occupied by Russian forces and the fifth since the beginning of 2026.

Source: press service for Energoatom, a Ukrainian state-owned nuclear energy company

Details: Energoatom reported that at 23:44 on 2 June, the plant completely lost external power supply after the Ferosplavna-1 power transmission line was disconnected.

Critical systems continued to operate using backup diesel generators.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that the outage was caused by a drone strike on the Nikopolska substation, located on the opposite bank of the Dnipro River from the ZNPP.

Background:

• The ZNPP has been relying on a single external power supply line for the past two months.
• More than 160 UAVs were recorded flying over the South Ukraine, Rivne and Chornobyl nuclear power plants during Russian attacks on 13 and 14 May.

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