Russia has been accused of deliberately sabotaging the last remaining power line into the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, after satellite imagery of the damaged area showed no sign of Ukrainian shelling that Moscow says is preventing a repair. Shaun Burnie, a nuclear specialist with Greenpeace, said the imagery showed that “Russia has deliberately sabotaged the external power line”. View image in fullscreen Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant Photograph: McKenzie IntelligenceUkraine believes that Russia’s goal is political, to force a crisis that will allow Moscow to assert its control over the site. At present the final power line runs from the nuclear plant, across the Dnipro river, to Ukrainian-held territory, where it had been maintained to avoid safety being compromised. An accelerated version of this scenario happened at the Japanese nuclear plant at Fukushima in 2011 because the reactors had just been operating.