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Novaya Gazeta Europe
18-07-2025
- Politics
- Novaya Gazeta Europe
At least 4 killed as Russia launches fresh overnight airstrikes on Ukraine — Novaya Gazeta Europe
At least four people were killed as Russia launched fresh aerial attacks on Ukraine between Thursday night and Friday morning, regional officials have said. In the central Dnipropetrovsk region, Governor Serhiy Lysak said that a 52-year-old man was killed and two more people were injured as Russian drones struck the city of Pavlohrad and surrounding villages overnight. Ukrainian Railways confirmed that the victim was a train driver who was killed when Russia struck an electric locomotive. A separate Russian strike on Friday morning then targeted the city of Kamianske, also in the Dnipropetrovsk region, killing a man and a woman, Lysak added. The strikes are the second deadly attack on the Dnipropetrovsk region over the past day, with a drone attack in the early hours of Thursday killing one person in the regional capital Dnipro and injuring 10 more across the region. In the neighbouring Zaporizhzhia region, Russia attacked the village of Stepnohirsk with guided bombs, sparking fires in several apartment blocks and killing a 64-year-old man, Zaporizhzhia Governor Ivan Fedorov said. A further four people were also injured in an overnight strike on the city of Chuhuiv in the northeastern Kharkiv region, Mayor Halyna Minayeva said. Ukraine's Air Force said Russia had launched 35 drones at the country overnight, primarily at 'frontline areas in the east', with air defences intercepting 11 of the drones over northern and eastern Ukraine and six more failing to reach their targets. Strikes were recorded by 18 drones at five locations, it added. Russia's Defence Ministry said it had downed 67 Ukrainian drones over eight regions of the country overnight, as well as 18 over annexed Crimea, the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. In the wake of the overnight attacks, Russian-installed authorities in Crimea announced a peninsula-wide ban on sharing footage of the aftermath of drone strikes online, citing the need 'to ensure public safety in the republic and protect military and other critical facilities'.
Business Recorder
14-07-2025
- Politics
- Business Recorder
Russia says Ukrainian drones attacked training centre at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Ukrainian drones attacked a training centre at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant on Sunday evening, the Russian-installed administration of the Russia-held plant in Ukraine said on Monday. Russia's drones and missile barrage targets Ukraine's west, kills two 'The enemy used three unmanned aerial vehicles,' the administration said on the Telegram messaging app. It added that 'no critical' damage was recorded.
Straits Times
14-07-2025
- Politics
- Straits Times
Russia says Ukrainian drones attacked training centre at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox Ukrainian drones attacked a training centre at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant on Sunday evening, the Russian-installed administration of the Russia-held plant in Ukraine said on Monday. "The enemy used three unmanned aerial vehicles," the administration said on the Telegram messaging app. It added that "no critical" damage was recorded. Reuters could not independently verify the Russian report. The report comes a day after the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, said that it had heard hundreds of rounds of small arms fire late on Saturday at the plant. Russian forces seized the Zaporizhzhia plant in the first weeks of Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Each side regularly accuses the other of firing or taking other actions that could trigger a nuclear accident. The station, Europe's biggest nuclear power plant, is not operating but still requires power to keep its nuclear fuel cool. The plant's Russia-installed management said in its statement that the station "continues to operate normally, with all necessary safety precautions in place." REUTERS
The Star
14-07-2025
- Politics
- The Star
Russia says Ukrainian drones attacked training centre at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
(Reuters) -Ukrainian drones attacked a training centre at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant on Sunday evening, the Russian-installed administration of the Russia-held plant in Ukraine said on Monday. "The enemy used three unmanned aerial vehicles," the administration said on the Telegram messaging app. It added that "no critical" damage was recorded. Reuters could not independently verify the Russian report. The report comes a day after the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, said that it had heard hundreds of rounds of small arms fire late on Saturday at the plant. Russian forces seized the Zaporizhzhia plant in the first weeks of Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Each side regularly accuses the other of firing or taking other actions that could trigger a nuclear accident. The station, Europe's biggest nuclear power plant, is not operating but still requires power to keep its nuclear fuel cool. The plant's Russia-installed management said in its statement that the station "continues to operate normally, with all necessary safety precautions in place." (Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Warsaw; Editing by Kim Coghill)
The Star
04-07-2025
- Politics
- The Star
Power cut for a time to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant; Kyiv blames Russian strike
FILE PHOTO: A view shows the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant from the bank of Kakhovka Reservoir near the town of Nikopol amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Alina Smutko/File Photo VIENNA (Reuters) -All external power lines supplying electricity to the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine were down for several hours on Friday, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said, but the station's management later said power had been restored. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, acknowledged that power had been restored after 3 1/2 hours. But he added in a statement on X that nuclear safety "remains extremely precarious in Ukraine." Ukraine's energy minister blamed Russian shelling for severing the last power line to the plant and its six reactors. The country's power distribution operator said its technicians had taken action to restore it. Europe's biggest nuclear power plant, which is not operating but still requires power to keep its nuclear fuel cool, switched during the outage to running on diesel generators, the IAEA said. The organization has repeatedly warned of the risk of a catastrophic accident at Zaporizhzhia, which is located near the front line in the war in Ukraine. Its reactors are shut down, but the nuclear fuel inside them still needs to be cooled, which requires constant power. The plant's Russia-installed management issued a statement on Telegram saying the high-voltage line to the plant had been restored. The statement said there had been no disruptions to operations at the plant, no violations of security procedures and no rise in background radiation levels beyond normal levels. The IAEA had earlier said that the plant had lost all off-site power for the ninth time during the military conflict and for the first time since late 2023. "The ZNPP currently relies on power from its emergency diesel generators, underlining (the) extremely precarious nuclear safety situation," it said. Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galuschenko wrote on Telegram that a Russian strike had cut off the plant. "The enemy struck the power line connecting the temporarily occupied (Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant) with the integrated power system of Ukraine." Ukrenergo, the sole operator of high-voltage lines in Ukraine, said its specialists had brought it back into service. "Ukrenergo specialists have brought back into service the high-voltage line which supplies the temporarily occupied power station," it said on Telegram. Neither the IAEA nor the plant's Russian-installed management initially cited a cause for the cut-off. Russian forces seized the Zaporizhzhia station in the first weeks of Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Each side regularly accuses the other of firing or taking other actions that could trigger a nuclear accident. (Reporting by Francois Murphy in Vienna and Ronald Popeski in WinnipegEditing by Peter Graff and Matthew Lewis)
