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The Russian government said Saturday that specialists had been sent to the Chernobyl nuclear site in Ukraine to help restore power there, according to a report.

The facility had electricity cut off several days ago, prompting Ukrainian officials to warn of a potential radiation leakage at the site, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Chernobyl was the site where the world’s worst nuclear accident occurred in 1986.

Russian forces took control of Chernobyl and Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear site early in the invasion that began Feb. 24.

Russia has denied Ukrainian reports that its personnel have taken over the sites, claiming instead that Russian advisers were providing “consultative assistance” to Ukrainian staffers at the plants, the Journal reported.

Ukrainian officials claimed that Rosatom, Russia’s nuclear agency, had taken control of the Ukrainian power facilities, but Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s representative to the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) denied the claim, according to the newspaper.