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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Dan Sabbagh in Kyiv

Latest Russian airstrikes on Ukraine threaten ‘catastrophic power failure’

Rescue workers in silhouette aim hosepipes towards a big fireball obscuring the scaffolding of a power substation
Rescue workers extinguish a fire at an electrical substation in Dnipropetrovsk region in Ukraine after Russian bombing in September 2024. Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP

Ukraine’s power network is at “heightened risk of catastrophic failure” after Russia’s missile and drone attack on Sunday, Greenpeace has warned, raising fears about the safety of the country’s three operational nuclear power stations.

The strikes by Moscow were aimed at electricity substations “critical to the operation of Ukraine’s nuclear plants” and there is a possibility that the reactors could lose power and become unsafe, according to a briefing note prepared for the Guardian.

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