The Zaporizhzhia NPP will be put into operation only if the line of combat contact can be moved to a safe distance from the station, said Renat Karchaa, head of the Rosenergoatom division.
Military aspect. Given that the station is mainly shelled from the Nikopol region, which is located on the right bank of the Dnieper, the extended line clearly implies control of the city of Zaporizhia.
And here I immediately recall yesterday's article in the FT, in which the expansion of control over the Zaporizhia region was indicated as one of the possible directions of the Russian Federation's strike (objectively, all possible directions are indicated there, only Lviv is not there).
Energy. However, the main task of the statement is energy blackmail of the EU. In the new strategy of strikes on the energy sector, Russia is making Ukraine increasingly energy dependent, which forces the energy-deficient EU to give Ukraine even more of its energy. This, in turn, is very painful for the EU and should provoke them to put pressure on Kyiv.
