Russia tries to switch Zaporizhzhia NPP to its energy system - General Staff of Ukrainian Armed Forces

This was reported in the morning report on December 15 by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

In the Zaporizhzhia sector, Russian forces continue to shell the positions of Ukrainian troops and civilian infrastructure along the Dnipro River.

Hulyaypilske, Orikhiv, Mala Tokmachka settlements were affected.

The Russian authorities are also working on switching Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to the energy system of Russia

• On November 27, Ukrainian atomic energy agency Energoatom President Petro Kotin said that there were signs that the Russian forces were going to leave ZNPP. The Kremlin denied this information. ZNPP deputy chief engineer Yuriy Chernichuk sided with the Russian forces.

• On December 2, it was reported that IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi hopes to resolve the situation around ZNPP by the end of the year.

• On December 6, Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation stated that it would not transfer control over Zaporizhzhia NPP to the IAEA, as the organization allegedly has no mandate to manage nuclear power plants.

• On December 8, Energoatom informed that the day before, Russian invaders brought several Grad multiple missile launchers to the territory of Zaporizhzhya NPP and placed them near the spent fuel storage facility.

• On December 9, Russian soldiers broke into the plant's premises, beat the head of the ZNPP Social Programs Department and his deputy and took the men away in an unknown direction.

• On December 14, the National Resistance Center wrote that the Russian forces threatened to fire ZNPP employees who would not sign an agreement with Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation by January 1.