A fire caused by bombing would be the cause of this shutdown, according to the Ukrainian operator Energoatom. Emmanuel Macron spoke with the Ukrainian President about this. In southern Ukraine, the last operational reactor of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe and occupied by Russian forces, was disconnected from the network on Monday, September 5, said Ukrainian state operator Energoatom. “Reactor number 6 was shut down and disconnected from the network,” Energoatom said on Telegram, citing a fire “which broke out because of the bombings” and damaged a power line connecting this unit to the Ukrainian network. To read also The Zaporizhia nuclear power plant disconnected from the Ukrainian network This reactor was the only one to operate among the six units of this plant. On Saturday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), whose experts are on site, had already announced the shutdown of reactor number 5, also due to the damage to a power line following a bombardment. . The other four reactors in Zaporizhia have been disconnected for weeks. SEE ALSO – President Zelensky is not satisfied with the IAEA’s mission in the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in ZaporizhiaThis nuclear power plant was mentioned during an interview between Volodymyr Zelensky and Emmanuel Macron, who “recalled the urgent need to preserve the safety and security of nuclear installations, which can only pass through the withdrawal of Russian forces”. This interview took place after a visit Thursday by a IAEA delegation to the plant, which has been at the heart of tensions between kyiv and Moscow for months and whose site has been bombed several times, raising fears of a nuclear disaster. For several weeks Russians and Ukrainians have been accusing each other of these bombings. Led by IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, most of the mission left the plant the same day. Of the six experts who remained on site, four left Monday morning while two others should be present there permanently, Energoatom said in a separate statement. hands of Russian troops in March, shortly after the launch of the invasion of Ukraine. SEE ALSO – War in Ukraine: the “physical integrity” of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant has been “violated”