The interception of a Ukrainian drone caused a fire in the perimeter of a nuclear energy plant on the border of the Russian region of Koursk, his operator said Sunday, ensuring that the disaster had been dominated and that no abnormal radioactivity rate had been measured.
Defeated shortly after midnight (9 PM GMT) by the Russian anti -aircraft defense, the drone “exploded and damaged an auxiliary transformer,” Koursk’s energy station said in his telegram account. “The fire was extinguished by the fire teams,” he added, added that there was no victim.
The normal radiation level
The operator of the power plant said that the operation of one of its four reactors had been reduced to 50% of its capacity due to this attack. “The level of cancellation at the industrial site of the Koursk nuclear energy plant and 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 and currently controls about 20% of this neighboring country, including Crimea, annexed Peninsula in 2014.
Since the beginning of the fight, the International Atomic Energy Agency (AEIA) warns against the risk of a disaster, especially in the Zaporijia nuclear energy plant in southern Ukraine, occupied since March 2022 by Russia.
In August last year, Vladimir Putin accused kyiv of wanting to attack the energy plant located in the Koursk region, then under the Ukrainian offensive. The Russian forces recovered him in spring.
Source: BFM TV
