Grossi called the incident with the loss of communication at the nuclear power plant "worrisome."

The loss of communication with the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) for almost 12 hours on May 27 became an incident of "concern." This was stated on May 28 in a statement by the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi.

He noted that the IAEA representatives had not been able to contact the agency's team at the site for many hours. Grossi pointed out that the reason for the shutdown is not yet clear, but the emergency coincided with reports of attacks on the city of Energodar, where most of the NPP staff lives.

"There was no fixed telephone service or Internet connection at the station, which was the longest such incident since the beginning of the military conflict. The station had no communication with the outside world through normal channels. <...> This incident obviously caused concern from the point of view of nuclear safety," the organization's press service quoted him as saying on its website.

Grossi added that the IAEA continues to investigate the causes of the malfunction, and will also discuss how to prevent such a thing in the future.

Reactor safety: restrictions may be tightened due to APU attacks on nuclear power plants

A new rotation of IAEA experts is also planned.

On May 27, the head of the Rosatom state Corporation, Alexei Likhachev, announced that over the past month there had been an unprecedented number of attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on the infrastructure of the nuclear power plant and the Energy Depot. According to Likhachev, one person was killed and several others were injured as a result of the strikes this week. The head of Rosatom said that the Ukrainian military, in his opinion, are trying to intimidate the population and employees of the station by declaring a "hunt" for transport.

On the same day, Evgenia Yashina, Director of Communications at ZAES, announced that Energodar had been subjected to an unprecedented massive attack by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) APU last night. In total, over 50 explosions were recorded. According to Yashina, the attack led to disruptions in the infrastructure: there is no communication in the city, and some areas were left without electricity.