Ukraine has been ensuring the supply of electricity for the plant's own needs for all four years of the occupation of the Zaporizhia NPP, which amounts to 40-50 MW per hour, said Pavlo Kovtoniuk, Chairman of Energoatom.

"Ukraine reliably provides 40-50 megawatts of power per hour to the Zaporizhia nuclear plant. If we calculate the cost of this electricity, these are indeed losses. But this is our nuclear plant, and we have not only a moral but also a professional obligation to ensure its safe condition," Kotoniuk told reporters at an Energoatom event marking the fourth anniversary of the Zaporizhia plant's occupation.

According to company calculations provided to Energoreforma, as of Feb. 27, 2026, the occupation and shutdown of the plant's power generation has resulted in 155.02 million megawatt-hours of lost electricity production and UAH 598.9 billion in lost revenue.

Kotoniuk said none of the nuclear workers could fully believe that Russia, although an aggressor, but a state that signed agreements on the unacceptability of nuclear terrorism, could militarily seize a nuclear facility.

"All these four years of the plant's occupation pose a threat to the entire world. Virtually all pillars of nuclear and radiation safety have been violated. The Russians have turned the plant into a military base. This is absolutely absurd," the Energoatom chief said.

Responding to reporters' questions, he emphasized that licenses issued by the Russian nuclear regulator for the operation of Units 1 and 2 at the Zaporizhia plant do not comply with any international standards and are purely a political action.

"This is exclusively a Ukrainian plant. But even from a technical standpoint, a license requires certain operational readiness, starting with personnel availability and ending with equipment, reliable power supply and so on. None of this exists. If equipment has not been operating for a long time, it takes more than a year to restart: inspections, audits, repairs... This involves a large volume of work," Kotoniuk explained.

He also clarified that the Zaporizhia plant still relies on a single power transmission line, while the other — Ferosplavna-1 — has not been repaired. According to him, damage to the power line was recorded in occupied territory.

As previously reported, the Zaporizhia nuclear plant on February 10 lost connection to one of its two external power lines: the 330-kilovolt Ferosplavna-1 line was disconnected. On February 27, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported achieving another local cease-fire near the Russian-occupied Zaporizhia plant to restore the backup 330-kilovolt Ferosplavna-1 power line.