The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian troops, “again lost contact” with the power system, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a statement on Saturday, whose experts are working at the scene, AFP reports.

This incident occurred “after new bombings in the area,” according to information provided by the Ukrainian authorities to the UN body. However, the station continues to work thanks to the backup line, the IAEA notes.

We will remind, for the first time the power plant was completely disconnected from the grid on August 25, when it was able to continue its work thanks to a backup diesel generator.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy then declared that the world is one step away from a nuclear catastrophe.

“If the diesel generators had not been started… if the staff of our station had not reacted after the power failure, then we would have already been forced to experience the consequences of the radiation accident,” he said in his video address in the evening.