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What happened in Zaporizhzhia before 28 August 2022?
Summary
A look back at two reports from southern Ukraine in the days before 28 August 2022, involving a power plant and a bombing in Berdiansk.
What was happening in occupied southern Ukraine in the run-up to 28 August 2022? Two developments from 26 August stood out.
Ukraine's state nuclear company, Energoatom, said that the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant had resumed supplying electricity to Ukraine's power grid. The plant had been disconnected from the grid the previous day, which Energoatom described as the first time that had happened in its history.
The same day, a bombing in the Russian-occupied city of Berdiansk, in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, killed a deputy chief of the traffic police. Russian authorities accused Ukrainian forces of carrying out the attack.
Both events belonged to the Southern Ukraine campaign of the Russian invasion that began in 2022. One concerned a power plant under occupation and its link to the national grid; the other concerned security in an occupied city. By 28 August 2022, the plant's reconnection and the accusations over Berdiansk were the latest reports from the region.
