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| Chernobyl power plant LOSES external power supply after Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, IAEA warns |
| 2026-01-21 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Chernobyl power plant has lost its external power supply after a series of Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, the IAEA has warned. The International Atomic Energy Agency Director General, Rafael Grossi, reported this morning that several Ukrainian power substations had been affected by large-scale military activity. One of these was the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which lost all external power supply, as well as several other power lines to other nuclear plants. 'The IAEA is actively monitoring developments to assess the impact on nuclear safety,' added Director General Grossi. It comes just a day after military intelligence officers in Ukraine warned that Russian missile strikes against the country's power grid could lead to a 'second Chernobyl'. Ukrainian experts say that Vladimir Putin's ongoing bombardment of Ukraine's power grid, cutting electricity and heating in freezing temperatures, could trigger a major disaster. Serhiy Beskrestnov, a Ukrainian expert in electronic warfare, said that the missiles being launched at energy infrastructure are landing in close proximity to nuclear reactors - some just 300 metres away. If a Russian strike against sucha substation were to miss, it could trigger a disaster, he warned. He compared the impact of such an attack to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, when a catastrophic explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant unleashed huge amounts of radiation, forcing hundreds of thousands of evacuations. Taking to his Telegram channel on Monday, he said: 'A miss by an Iskander or a Kinzhal could turn into a second Chernobyl'. He added that the combination of a Russian strike against such substations, in an attempt to cause a nationwide blackout, as well as their track record for missing targets, made for a very dangerous situation. |
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