{"id":369325,"date":"2025-08-24T08:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T08:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369325\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T08:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T08:26:09","slug":"drone-shot-down-by-russia-sparks-fire-at-kursk-nuclear-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369325\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone Shot Down by Russia Sparks Fire at Kursk Nuclear Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire broke out Sunday at a Russian nuclear power plant after the country&#8217;s military downed a Ukrainian drone, the facility <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kunpp46\/6648\">said<\/a> after the blaze was put out.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cdevice detonated\u201d upon impact at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant in western Russia, sparking a blaze which the facility said \u201cwas extinguished by fire crews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There were no casualties from the drone smashing down at the site, where capacity was reduced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe radiation background at the industrial site of the Kursk NPP and the surrounding area has not changed and corresponds to natural levels,\u201d the plant wrote on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>The International Atomic Energy Agency has repeatedly warned of the dangers of fighting around nuclear plants following Russia launching its military offensive on Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The plant is near the Russia-Ukraine border and sits to the west of Kursk city, the region&#8217;s capital with a population of around 440,000.<\/p>\n<p>Russia now controls around a fifth of Ukraine, including the Crimean peninsula which it annexed in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The fighting has killed tens of thousands, forced millions to flee their homes and destroyed cities and villages across the east and south of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly rebuffed calls by Kyiv and the West for an unconditional and immediate ceasefire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire broke out Sunday at a Russian nuclear power plant after the country&#8217;s military downed a Ukrainian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[19275,1303,332,753],"class_list":{"0":"post-369325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-kursk","9":"tag-nuclear-power","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-ukraine-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115082794395954328","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}