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• Ukraine's state-owned power generating company Energoatom said on Monday that the outage at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was due to Russian shelling of an external power line. READ MORE BELOW

• At least eight people were wounded and scores of buildings were damaged in a Russian air attack overnight on the Dnipropetrovsk region,

• The European Union may restore access to the SWIFT payment system for a Russian state agricultural bank only after the conflict in Ukraine ends, the Russian newspaper Izvestia quoted EU foreign affairs spokesman Peter Stano as saying on Monday.

• The transfer of F-16 jets to Ukraine would raise the question of NATO's role in the conflict, a senior Russian diplomat said on Monday, while accusing the U.S. of subordinating the Group of Seven to its policy of inflicting "strategic defeat" on Russia.

• Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Monday a meeting with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit in Japan fell through because Zelenskyy was late.

• Zelenskyy likened the ruins of Ukraine's eastern city of Bakhmut with the destruction of Hiroshima in World War II, as he attended the Group of Seven summit in the Japanese city on Sunday.

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Ukraine energy company blames Russian shelling for Zaporizhzhia outage

Ukraine's state-owned power generating company Energoatom said on Monday that the outage at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was due to Russian shelling of an external power line.

The Dniprovska power line in Ukraine, which supplies power for the now Moscow-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, was disconnected after overnight Russian shelling, Energoatom said on the Telegram messaging app.

Ukraine's state-owned power generating company Energoatom said on Monday that there was a power outage at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after a Russia-installed official said the plant was switched to standby and emergency power supply.

"Yes, we have the seventh blackout since the start of the (Russian) occupation," Energoatom told Reuters.

Yuriy Malashko, governor of the Zaporizhzhia region in Ukraine said that there was a fire at one of the facilities in Zaporizhzhia city due to an overload in the power system.

"Problems with electricity supply that arose in the city of Zaporizhzhia are not related to shelling," Malashko said on the Telegram messaging app.

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