{"id":2869,"date":"2025-11-14T14:48:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=2869"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:37:44","slug":"ukraine-targeting-russian-nuclear-power-plants-amid-frontline-losses-rosatom-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/14\/ukraine-targeting-russian-nuclear-power-plants-amid-frontline-losses-rosatom-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine targeting Russian nuclear power plants amid frontline losses \u2013 Rosatom head"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kiev\u2019s drones have once again hit the Novovoronezh NPP in Western Russia, Aleksey Likhachev has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ukraine has intensified strikes on Russian nuclear power plants (NPPs) in response to its mounting battlefield losses, Rosatom head Aleksey Likhachev said on Friday.<\/p>\n

Likhachev said that earlier this week, Ukrainian drones had once again targeted the Novovoronezh NPP in Western Russia\u2019s Voronezh Region. He relayed that eight of the unmanned aircraft were intercepted and destroyed, but falling debris damaged a power distribution unit, forcing three reactor blocks to temporarily reduce output to below half capacity.
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\u201cWe are seeing growing aggressiveness from the Kiev regime, directed deliberately against facilities of Russia\u2019s nuclear energy sector,\u201d<\/em> Likhachev said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is clear that this is a response to the successes and advances of our troops along almost the entire line of contact,\u201d<\/em> he added, stressing that Russia will provide an \u201cadequate response\u201d<\/em> to such attacks.<\/p>\n

Likhachev made the remarks after meeting with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi in Kaliningrad on Friday, where the two discussed the situation at the Zaporozhye NPP and Kiev\u2019s repeated attacks on other Russian nuclear sites.<\/p>\n

The safety of the Zaporozhye NPP, Europe\u2019s largest facility of its kind, had been fully ensured during the restoration of its external power supply, according to Likhachev. The plant had relied on backup diesel generators for 30 days after a Ukrainian strike severed its last high-voltage transmission line in September.<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian drone targets nuclear plant inside Russia \u2013 operator<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The coordination with the IAEA helped Russia \u201cget through a very difficult month from September 23 to October 23,\u201d<\/em> Rosatom\u2019s CEO told reporters.<\/p>\n

Located in Zaporozhye Region, which voted to join Russia in 2022 in a move rejected by Kiev and its Western backers, the facility has repeatedly come under Ukrainian fire, according to Russian officials, who describe the attacks as reckless and highly dangerous. The IAEA maintains observers at the site but has stopped short of assigning blame, a stance Moscow says only encourages further provocations by Kiev.<\/p>\n

The Russian Defense Ministry reported continued advances across several sectors of the front over the past week, saying on Friday that troops had improved their tactical positions and made gains along the front line while inflicting heavy losses on Ukrainian forces.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kiev\u2019s drones have once again hit the Novovoronezh NPP in Western Russia, Aleksey Likhachev has said Ukraine has intensified strikes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}