KYIV, Aug 9 – Russia's Rosatom has handed over to Russian-occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant (NPP) a plan to reconnect the plant to Crimea, which is currently being implemented by the occupiers, President of state-owned enterprise National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom Petro Kotin said during the national telethon on Tuesday.

"In fact, since Thursday, we have had a deterioration in the situation at Zaporizhia NPP. First, it began with the fact that Rosatom personnel handed over to the plant a special program to reconnect Zaporizhia NPP to Crimea, and the first precondition for this program was actually severe damage to the plant's communication lines with the power system of Ukraine," Kotin said.