THE Ukrainian state-run energy company Ukrenergo said Wednesday that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine has been disconnected from the power grid.

“The nuclear power plant in Chernobyl was fully disconnected from the power grid. The nuclear station has no power supply,” Ukrenergo said in a statement on Telegram.

Military actions in the area are in progress so there is no possibility to restore the power lines, it said.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Twitter called on the international community to press an urgent demand that Russia cease fire and allow repair units to restore the power supply to the nuclear power plant.

“Reserve diesel generators have a 48-hour capacity to power the Chernobyl NPP (Nuclear Power Plant). After that, cooling systems of the storage facility for spent nuclear fuel will stop, making radiation leaks imminent,” Kuleba tweeted.

The Chernobyl nuclear plant, some 110 km north of Kiev, suffered one of the worst clear accidents in human history on April 26, 1986.

On Feb. 24, Mykhailo Podoliak, advisor to the Head of the President’s Office of Ukraine, said Russian forces have seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro met in a small resort town in Turkey’s southern province of Antalya, local media reported Thursday.

The meeting comes on the sidelines of an international forum in the presence of Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.

It is the first high-level meeting between Moscow and Kiev since Russia launched a “special military operation” in Ukraine on Feb. 24.

In another development, two temporary flights carrying Chinese citizens evacuated from Ukraine arrived safely in Hangzhou, East China’s Zhejiang Province on Thursday. (Xinhua)