Ukraine’s air defenses reportedly shot down all of the drones and missiles over Mykolaiv, Kherson, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk and Khmelnytskyi oblasts.
Ukraine is investigating claims that an overnight Russian drone attack on Oct. 25 deliberately targeted the Khmelnitskyi Nuclear Power Plant, Air Force spokesperson Yuriy Ihnat stated on national television.
Russia fired almost a dozen Shahed drones against Ukrainian targets and falling debris from an intercepted drone damaged power lines near a nuclear plant in the country's west, knocking out electricity to hundreds of people, officials said Wednesday. Ukraine’s air force said it stopped all the drones that were launched. For the fourth day in a row, the Kremlin’s forces took aim at the Ukrainian region of Khmelnytskyi, injuring 16 people, according to local authorities.
Thousands have been left without power after Russia launched an overnight drone attack on Khmelnytskyi Oblast, damaging the environs of Khmelnytskyi Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine’s Energy Ministry reported on Oct. 25.
Powerful blasts near the area of Ukraine's Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant damaged windows at the site overnight, but did not affect the plant's operations or its connection to the grid, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday. The explosions temporarily cut power to some off-site radiation monitoring stations, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) added. The fact that numerous windows at the site were destroyed shows just how close it was.