Un drone ukrainien provoque un incendie dans une centrale nucléaire russe
The interception of a Ukrainian drone caused a fire at a nuclear power plant in the Russian border region of Kursk, its operator said Sunday, assuring that the fire had been brought under control and that no abnormal levels of radioactivity had been measured.
Shot down shortly after midnight (9 p.m. GMT) by Russian air defenses, the drone "exploded and damaged an auxiliary transformer," the Kursk power plant said on its Telegram account.
"The fire was extinguished by firefighters," she added, adding that there were no casualties.
The plant's operator said that one of its four reactors had been reduced to 50 percent of its capacity due to the attack.
"The radiation level at the industrial site of the Kursk nuclear power plant and in the surrounding area 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 the neighboring country, including Crimea, a peninsula it annexed in 2014.
Since the start of the fighting, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has warned of the risk of a catastrophe, particularly at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, occupied by Russia since March 2022.
In August last year, Vladimir Putin accused kyiv of planning to strike the power plant located in the Kursk region, which was then under Ukrainian offensive. Russian forces recaptured it in the spring.
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