russian military forced the others to shut down and it lost its main connection to the nation s power grid and atomic safety experts are extremely worried. cnn s melissa bell has the latest from ukraine. reporter: there s been good news from the ukrainian counteroffensive tonight according to officials here in kyiv with an aide to president zelenskyy of what he says is the ukrainian flag. this town has been the center of battles for some time and we are getting some confirmation of the fact it may be now in ukrainian hands and also on the russian side, with some talk of the retreat of russian forces around the town. it is of course a counteroffensive now going on for just about a week and about which ukrainian authorities have been remaining pretty tight lipped insisting this is about degrading russian military capabilities, trying to take out infrastructure that allows them to resupply their troops around kherson. not really aimed at fast territorial gains. of course this
kherson. not really aimed at fast territorial gains. of course this is also about morale and momentum, jim. there s been bad news however from the zaporizhzhia power plant where continued shelling over the weekend has led not just to the closing down of one of the last remaining functions and reactors at the plant but also damage to the last remaining functioning external power supply. there is an extra power supply that leads to a thermal power plant that allows both the energy apparatus to get to the electricity grid and also the plant to be supplied with electricity but the head of the ieae has been saying although the presence of his six inspectors still inside the zaporizhzhia plant hadn t been able to do much in terms of stopping the shelling saying the fact of their presence had been important in gathering the information they needed and chaeng jg their ability to get things up and running in zaporizhzhia calling that presence a game changer. melissa, thank you.