KYIV, Nov 18 – Ukraine's operating NPPs reduced their electricity production on Sunday morning as a precaution against a massive combined Russian shelling aimed at energy infrastructure, which further worsened nuclear safety, said Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

"Although the NPPs - Khmelnytsky, Rivne and Pivdennoukrainsk – were not directly impacted and did not shut down, several electrical substations on which they depend suffered further damage during the strikes... The main power lines from four of the substations were disconnected. At the moment, only two of the country’s nine operational reactors currently generate electricity at 100 percent capacity," the agency reported on its website.