{"id":171665,"date":"2025-08-24T12:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T12:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/171665\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T12:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T12:25:12","slug":"ukraine-strikes-russian-nuclear-power-plant-moscow-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/171665\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Strikes Russian Nuclear Power Plant, Moscow says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBy <\/p>\n<p>Daniel Orton is an editor on the live news team at Newsweek, based in London, U.K. He was previously a video news editor at the company between 2017 and 2019, before spending several years as a senior video journalist on the social news team at The Wall Street Journal, where he primarily produced\u00a0short-form and breaking-news videos for the Journal&#8217;s X (Twitter) page, with a focus on business, finance and markets. He also produced longer videos for other platforms on a wide range of subjects, from the U.K. royal family&#8217;s finances to the cost of tackling climate change. He has also worked for The London Evening Standard, Fox News and Bauer Media.<\/p>\n<p> Daniel Orton <\/p>\n<p>Editor, Live News<\/p>\n<p>news article<\/p>\n<p> Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u2713 Link copied to clipboard!<\/p>\n<p>Listen<\/p>\n<p>Translate<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-lang=\"en\" style=\"display: none;\" class=\"active\">English (Original)\n<\/li>\n<li data-lang=\"es\">Espa\u00f1ol<\/li>\n<li data-lang=\"zh\">\u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba<\/li>\n<li data-lang=\"fr\">Fran\u00e7ais<\/li>\n<li data-lang=\"de\">Deutsch<\/li>\n<li data-lang=\"pt\">Portuguese<\/li>\n<li data-lang=\"hi\">\u0939\u093f\u0928\u094d\u0926\u0940<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"read-original-disclaimer\">Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies\u2014please refer to the original content.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"read-original\">Read original<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speed: 0.5xSpeed: 1xSpeed: 1.5xSpeed: 2x<\/p>\n<p class=\"note\">\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.<\/p>\n<p>\u2716   <\/p>\n<p>Russia accused Ukraine on Sunday of carrying out overnight drone attacks that ignited a fire at a nuclear power plant in the western Kursk region, as Kyiv marked 34 years of independence.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple energy and power facilities were targeted in the strikes, according to Russian officials. A transformer at the Kursk nuclear facility was damaged, sparking a blaze that was quickly extinguished, the plant&#8217;s press service reported on Telegram. No casualties were reported, and radiation levels remained within normal limits.<\/p>\n<p>The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it was aware of reports that the transformer fire was linked to &#8220;military activity&#8221; but had not independently confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"mapping-embed imgPhoto\" id=\"i2708660\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/kursk-nuclear-power-plant.jpg\" alt=\"Kursk nuclear power plant\" width=\"1200\" height=\"709\"\/><br \/>\nFILE &#8211; general view of Kurskaya nuclear power plant taken outside the town of Kurchatov on August 27, 2024.<br \/>\nFILE &#8211; general view of Kurskaya nuclear power plant taken outside the town of Kurchatov on August 27, 2024.<br \/>\nTatyana Makeyeva\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, firefighters responded to a separate blaze at the port of Ust-Luga in Russia&#8217;s Leningrad region, home to a key fuel export hub. Regional officials said debris from downed Ukrainian drones sparked the fire, which followed reports that 10 drones had been intercepted in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s Defense Ministry said its air defenses destroyed 95 Ukrainian drones overnight across Russian territory. Meanwhile, Ukraine&#8217;s air force reported that Moscow launched 72 drones and decoys, along with a cruise missile, into Ukrainian airspace, of which 48 drones were intercepted or jammed.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow<\/p>\n<p>This article contains reporting by The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Daniel Orton is an editor on the live news team at Newsweek, based in London, U.K. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":171666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18298,37593,24531,50,3657,65202,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-171665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-drone-strikes","9":"tag-kyiv","10":"tag-moscow","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","13":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky","14":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115083735311290681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}