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Russian officials said Ukrainian drone set fire to an atomic plant overnight in Russia’s Cursa region.
Strike coincides with Ukraine’s 34th Independence Day, marking the 1991 break from the Soviet Union.
Russia said the strike hit several power facilities. The plant’s fire was quickly extinguished. A transformer was damaged, but radiation levels were normal, and no injury occurred.
The United Nations Nuclear Guard said that it was known about a transformer fire media reports “due to military activity”, but did not independently confirm them.
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A soldier of Ukraine’s National Guard 15th Brigade launched a reconnaissance drone Leleka to determine the Russian posts near the front line on the front line on the Zaporizhjia region, Ukraine, Monday, July 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Andree Andryanco)
Director General Rafael Mariano Grosi said, “Every nuclear facility should be preserved at all times.”
A major fuel export terminal caught fire at the UST-Luga port in the Leningrad area of ​​Russia.
The regional governor said that about 10 Ukrainian drones were shot in the region and the debris spewed the blast.
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Ukrainian Sevadar of the 44th Artillery Brigade on Wednesday, August 20, 2025 self-consuming a bohodana towards Russian positions on the frontline in the Zaporizhajia region of Ukraine, Ukraine. (AP photo/danylo antoniuk)
Russia’s Ministry of Defense said that Air Defense on Sunday stopped 95 Ukrainian drones in the Russian region.
Ukraine’s Air Force stated that Russia launched 72 drones and decoys and a cruise missile overnight; 48 drones were shot or blocked.
President Volodmi Zelancesi spoke in a video of Kyiv’s Independence Square.
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Ukraine Chairman Volodimier Zelansky held a news conference on 13 May 2025 in Kiev, Ukraine. (Ukrinform/Nurphoto through Getty images)
He said, “We are building a Ukraine, which will have enough strength and power to live in security and peace,” he said, “Just calling for” peace “.”
He said, “Our future will be on us,” he said, accepting the US-Russia summit in Alaska earlier this month, which will ignore many concerned Ukrainian interests.
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“And the world knows it. And the world respects it. It respects Ukraine. It considers Ukraine the same,” he said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.