A fire broke out in the night in a Russian nuclear power plant after the country’s aerial defenses knocked down a Ukrainian drone, according to reports from the site itself.
The “device exploded” at the time of the impact with the Kursk (West) nuclear power plant, causing a fire that “was tamed by the firefighters”, reads a press release published on Telegram. No victims or injuries have been reported, but the ability of the plant has been reduced. “The level of radioactivity on the website of the Kursk nuclear power plant and in the surrounding area has not changed and corresponds to natural values”, continues the note.
The local Russian authorities reported that during the night they intercepted Ukrainian drones in regions sometimes far from the front, such as that of St. Petersburg (North-West) or on the Volga. Shortly after midnight (21:00 GMT) by the Russian anti -aircraft defense, one of these aircraft “has exploded and damaged an auxiliary transformer” on the ground of the nuclear power plant located in the Russian Kursk border region, announced its operator on his Telegram account.
“The fire was tamed,” he added, specifying that there were no victims but that the operation of a reactor has been reduced. “The level of radiation on the industrial site of the Kursk nuclear power plant and in the surrounding areas it has not changed and corresponds to normal levels”, according to the same source. On the coast of the Baltic Sea, the interception of 10 drones on the port of Ust-Luca, near St. Petersburg, caused a fire in an oil terminal of the Russian group Novatek, reported the regional governor Alexander Drozdenko on Telegram.
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