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What happened at Zaporizhzhia power plant before 28 August 2022?
Summary
A look back at two southern Ukraine security reports from 26 August 2022, on the occupied nuclear plant and a bombing in Berdiansk.
What was happening in occupied southern Ukraine in the days before 28 August 2022? Two reports from 26 August gave a picture of the security situation there.
The first concerned the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which was under Russian occupation. Energoatom, Ukraine's state nuclear company, said on 26 August that the plant had resumed supplying electricity to Ukraine's power grid. It had been disconnected from the grid the day before, 25 August, for the first time in its history.
The second report came from Berdiansk, a Russian-occupied city in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. A deputy chief of the traffic police was killed there in a bombing on 26 August. Russian authorities accused Ukrainian forces of carrying out the attack.
Both events were logged as part of the southern Ukraine campaign of Russia's 2022 invasion. They showed how the occupation affected both critical infrastructure and everyday policing in the region, with the plant's grid link broken and then restored within about a day, and with Russian-installed authorities and Ukraine on opposite sides of the account of the Berdiansk attack.
