INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, occupied by Moscow's troops, came back online Friday, the state operator said after Kyiv claimed
Ukraine's power network for the first time in its four-decade history due to "actions of the invaders," Energoatom said.The operator said
that as of 2:04 pm the plant "is connected to the grid and produces electricity for the needs of Ukraine" once again.Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky said his country's nuclear experts had managed to protect the plant "from the worst case scenario which is constantly
being provoked by Russian forces."But he added: "I want to underline that the situation remains very risky and dangerous."The Zaporizhzhia
nuclear plant has been cause for mounting concern since Russian troops seized it in early March.In recent weeks, Kyiv and Moscow have traded
an emergency summit on the spiraling energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine, which this week entered its seventh month.The bloc has
vowed to wean its 27 member states off Russian oil and gas in protest against the invasion, which has led to tough international sanctions
against Moscow.Friday saw Norway, a major natural gas producer, say it was joining the latest package of EU sanctions.However, anxiety over
supply has sent prices soaring, with Germany and France reporting Friday record electricity prices for 2023, more than 10 times higher than
for this year.Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said his country, which holds the EU presidency, "will convene an urgent meeting of energy
from radiation disaster," he said.Energoatom said the outage was caused by ash pit fires at an adjacent thermal power plant, which damaged a
line connecting the only two of the plant's six reactors in operation.Blaming Russian attacks for damage to the three other power lines
linking the complex to the national grid, Energoatom said Friday afternoon one reactor had been reconnected "and capacity is being
added."International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Mariano Grossi said Thursday he wants to visit the site within days, warning of
that the team needs to get there as soon as possible "and help maintain the station under Ukrainian control on a permanent basis."Zerkal
told Ukraine's Radio NV late Thursday she was skeptical the mission would go ahead, despite Moscow's formal agreement, as "they are
artificially creating all the conditions so that the mission will not reach the site."United States warningKyiv suspects Moscow intends to
divert power from the Zaporizhzhia plant to the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russian troops in 2014.On Thursday, Washington warned against
any such move."The electricity that it produces rightly belongs to Ukraine," State Department spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters, saying
attempts to redirect power to occupied areas were "unacceptable".Britain's defense ministry said satellite imagery showed an increased
presence of Russian troops at the power plant with armored personnel carriers deployed within 60 meters of one reactor.In another
development Friday, French energy firm TotalEnergies said it was divesting its stake in a Russian gas field following a media report that
some of its fuel was ending up in Russian fighter jets.The company said it had signed a deal Friday with its local Russian partner Novatek
to sell its 49 percent in the Termokarstovoye gas field "on economic terms enabling TotalEnergies to recover the outstanding amounts
invested in the field."It said the divestment had been agreed in July and Russian authorities gave the approval on August 25.A day earlier,
French daily Le Monde had reported the alleged refining of natural gas condensates from Termokarstovoye into jet fuel for fighter-bombers
chief executive Patrick Pouyanne said in March Russian gas fields exploited by the company's joint ventures were vital for supplying
