On Tuesday evening, direct communication between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was restored. Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the agency, stated this in a press statement..

Russian troops held Chernobyl for five weeks before withdrawing on March 31. On March 10, the IAEA lost contact with the nuclear power plant.

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The situation with nuclear power plants in the occupied and controlled territories.

Regarding the country's 15 operational reactors at four nuclear power plants, the Ukrainian side said that seven are currently connected to the grid, including two at the Russian-controlled Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, two at the Rivne nuclear power plant, two at the South Ukraine nuclear power plant and one at the Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant.. The remaining eight reactors are shut down for regular maintenance or held in standby.. Security systems continue to operate at four nuclear power plants.

Regarding safeguards, the IAEA has stated that it still does not receive remote transmission of data from its monitoring systems installed at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, but such data is transmitted to the IAEA headquarters from other nuclear power plants in Ukraine.

Recall that on the first day of the occupation, Russian troops seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the personnel were not released and were not allowed to rotate. The interim head of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Valery Seyda, noted that the forced idle mode was introduced at the station.

At one of the stages of the capture, soldiers of the enemy army were sent to dig trenches in the Red Forest in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they were subsequently placed in the Gomel Scientific and Practical Center for Radiation Medicine of "