Russian officials said Ukrainian drones ignited an overnight fire at a nuclear plant in Russia\u2019s Kursk region.<\/p>\n
The strikes coincided with Ukraine\u2019s 34th Independence Day, marking its 1991 break from the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n
Russia said the strikes hit several power facilities. The plant fire was quickly extinguished. A transformer was damaged, but radiation levels remained normal, and no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
The U.N. nuclear watchdog said it was aware of media reports of a transformer fire ‘due to military activity,’ but had not independently confirmed them.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said ‘every nuclear facility must be protected at all times.’<\/p>\n
A fire also broke out at the port of Ust-Luga in Russia\u2019s Leningrad region, home to a major fuel export terminal.<\/p>\n
The regional governor said about 10 Ukrainian drones were shot down in the area and that debris sparked the blaze.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said air defenses intercepted 95 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory Sunday.<\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s air force said Russia launched 72 drones and decoys and a cruise missile overnight; 48 drones were shot down or jammed.<\/p>\n
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke in a video from Kyiv\u2019s Independence Square.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
‘We are building a Ukraine that will have enough strength and power to live in security and peace,’ he said, calling for a ‘just peace.’<\/p>\n
‘What our future will be is up to us alone,’ he said, while acknowledging the U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska earlier this month, which many worried would sideline Ukrainian interests.<\/p>\n
‘And the world knows this. And the world respects this. It respects Ukraine. It perceives Ukraine as an equal,’ he said.<\/p>\n
The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Russian officials said Ukrainian drones ignited an overnight fire at a nuclear plant in Russia\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketspaceinsights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketspaceinsights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketspaceinsights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketspaceinsights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketspaceinsights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marketspaceinsights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketspaceinsights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketspaceinsights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketspaceinsights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketspaceinsights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}