Meanwhile, three civilians were injured after the Russian army shelled the city of Kherson on Saturday morning, local media reported.
Ukraine’s claim came just days after South Korea’s intelligence service stated that North Korean troops had been pulled back from the front lines.
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia all disconnected from the Soviet-era grid on Saturday morning and will merge with the European energy system on Sunday.
Fico’s views on Russia have largely differed from the European mainstream. He ended Slovakia’s military aid for Ukraine, criticised European Union sanctions on Russia and vowed to block Ukraine from joining NATO.
Russian forces seized the NPP in the early weeks following the 2022 invasion and have held it ever since but fighting around the complex has raised fears of a nuclear accident.
After the disconnection plans were announced, propaganda campaigns cropped up on social media and in printed leaflets in city streets that issued fake-news warnings about blackouts, severe energy shortages and sky-high energy bills for consumers.
“There is a new idea which I like: a rearmament bank,” said Radosław Sikorski, Poland’s minister of foreign affairs.
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday morning, where he is announcing a new aid package of financial support for Ukraine.
In an interview published on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he would be willing to sit at the negotiating table with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, if that was the only to “bring peace to the citizens of Ukraine and not lose people.”
Russia’s war in Ukraine has brought fears of a nuclear catastrophe as Zaporizhzhia has repeatedly been caught in the crossfire of fighting.