UPDATE:

On 11 September at 03:41 local time (00:41 UCT), the National Nuclear Energy Generating Company of Ukraine (Energoatom) disconnected the power unit No. 6 of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) from the power grid. Preparations are underway for its cooling and transfer to a cold state.

For the past 3 days, the  power unit No. 6 has operated in an island mode, feeding only the house loads of ZNPP at a critically low power level as all communication lines of the ZNPP with the Ukrainian power system were damaged.

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Since 24 February, the UN and humanitarian partners have provided vital humanitarian aid to more than 11.8 million people with various forms of assistance.

On 18 August in Lviv, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has been meeting Ukraine and Türkiye leaders to discuss finding a political solution to the war. They have also been talking about efforts to increase Ukrainian grain exports ahead of winter, and the risk of a catastrophe at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the UN to ensure the security of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant which is currently under Russian control. Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry dismissed a proposal by the UN Secretary-General to demilitarise the area around the plant.

A total of 25 grain-laden ships have so far left the Ukrainian ports. The ship carrying the first cargo of food aid bound for Africa, transited Istanbul’s Bosporus Strait on Wednesday evening.

A total of 17 people were killed and dozens wounded in a series of massive Russian missile strikes on Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Wednesday night and Thursday morning.