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"#Ukraine's state-run nuclear company said Russian Forces had cut a power line supplying electricity to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Chernobyl no longer generates electricity, but it needs the power to help cool spent nuclear fuel." dw.com/en/eu-to-tough…

Energoatom said it was impossible to fix the power line because of ongoing fighting in the area.

Ukraine's energy minister, Herman Halushchenko, said authorities did not know the radiation levels at the site since the Russians took control of it.

"The Director-General ... indicated that remote data transmission from safeguards monitoring systems installed at the Chornobyl NPP had been lost," the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement.

Meanwhile, The Russian military had not ordered to "overthrow the current government," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova, said during a press briefing on Wednesday.

Her denial comes after Moscow's often repeated aims to disarm its neighbor and target leaders it calls "neo-Nazis."

Zakharova also said "some progress has been made" in the Russia-Ukraine talks.

On Monday, Zelenskyy said negotiations to resolve the conflict had made little progress.

He also said he was "not hiding" and "not afraid of anyone" as he revealed his location in Kyiv.

The EU agreed to increase sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

The 27-nation bloc also gave the go-ahead to cut three Belarusian banks from the global SWIFT payments system.

The EU included more Russian leaders, oligarchs and their family members in the latest round of penalties.

Sanctions targeting the maritime sector were also approved, the French mission, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, wrote on Twitter.

On the same day, Russia accused the US of starting an economic war. "The United States definitely has declared economic war against Russia and is waging this war," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

It comes after US President Joe Biden announced the US would no longer import Russian oil.

"We will not be part of subsidizing Putin's war," Biden said, describing energy imports as "the main artery of Russia's economy."

Peskov said Russia would remain a reliable energy supplier and pointed out that energy flows continued.

"But you see the bacchanalia, the hostile bacchanalia, which the West has sown — and that, of course, makes the situation very difficult and forces us to think seriously," Peskov said.