{"id":1346752,"date":"2026-01-20T14:35:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/due-to-russian-shelling-the-chernobyl-npp-lost-all-external-power-supply\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:35:26","slug":"due-to-russian-shelling-the-chernobyl-npp-lost-all-external-power-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/due-to-russian-shelling-the-chernobyl-npp-lost-all-external-power-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Due to Russian shelling, the Chernobyl NPP lost all external power supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The International Nuclear Energy Agency said that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant lost all external power supply as a result of a Russian night attack on Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iaeaorg\/status\/2013562829853409652\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was reported<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the IAEA press service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the agency&#8217;s director general, Rafael Grossi, several substations important for nuclear safety were damaged by Russian strikes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to the Chernobyl NPP, power lines to other nuclear power plants in Ukraine were also affected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe IAEA is actively monitoring developments to assess the impact on nuclear safety,\u201d Grossi stressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Previously, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zahroza-druhoho-chornobyliu-chomu-ataky-na-aes-nesut-krytychnu-zahrozu\/\">the President of Ukraine and the State Security Service of Ukraine stated the threat of Russia preparing strikes on substations<\/a> related to nuclear power plants.<\/p>\n<p> Recall that in December, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/udar-po-enerhetytsi-aes-zmenshyly-heneratsiiu-chastyna-oblastey-bez-svitla\/\">Ukrainian nuclear power plants reduced electricity production<\/a> , and consumers were blacked out in eight regions.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Nuclear Energy Agency said that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant lost all external power supply as a result of a Russian night attack on Ukraine. This was reported by the IAEA press service. According to the agency&#8217;s director general, Rafael Grossi, several substations important for nuclear safety were damaged by Russian strikes. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1329475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76875,76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1346752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1329475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}