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The interception of a Ukrainian drone caused a fire in the perimeter of a nuclear power plant in the Russian region border of Koursk. However, this Sunday, August 24. Nevertheless, The fire was under control.
The interception of a Ukrainian drone caused a fire in the perimeter of a nuclear power plant in the Russian region border of Koursk. Furthermore, said its operator on Sunday, assuring that the disaster had been mastered and that no abnormal radioactivity rate had been measured.
Defeated shortly after midnight (9 p.m. Similarly, GMT) by the Russian anti-aircraft defense. However, the drone “exploded and damaged an auxiliary transformer,” said the Koursk power station on its Telegram account. “The fire was extinguished by the fire teams,” she added, adding that there were no victim.
The normal radiation level – Fires nuclear power plant oil
The operator of the power station said that the operation of one of fires nuclear power plant oil its four. reactors had been reduced to 50% of its capacity due to this attack. “The level of cancellation on the industrial site of the Koursk nuclear power plant. in the surroundings has not changed and corresponds to normal levels,” he said.
Russia launched a large -scale military offensive in Ukraine in February 2022. currently controls around 20% of this neighboring country, including Crimea, peninsula annexed in 2014.
Since the start of the fighting. the International Atomic Energy Agency (AEIA) warns against the risk of a disaster, especially at the Zaporijia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, occupied since March 2022 by Russia.
In August of last year. Vladimir Putin accused kyiv of wanting to strike the power plant located in the Koursk region, then under Ukrainian offensive. Russian forces took it back in the spring.
A fire in an oil terminal
On the Côte de la Baltic. the interception of 10 drones fires nuclear power plant oil on the port of Oust Louga, near Saint Petersburg, caused a fire in an oil terminal in the Russian group Novatek, said regional governor Alexandre Drozdenko on Telegram.
“The firefighters and the ministry of emergency situations are at work to turn it off,” he added.
On the front. the Russian army has increased its territorial gains in recent months against less numerous and less well equipped Ukrainian forces.
She claimed on Saturday the capture of two villages in the Donetsk region. in eastern Ukraine, progressing in particular to the city of Kostyantynivka, an important bastion on the road to Kramatorsk which is an important point for Ukrainian logistics.
While Moscow. kyiv accuse the organization of a possible meeting with his Russian counterpart respectively, Donald Trump announced on Friday to give himself “two weeks” to decide his line concerning this conflict.
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