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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - This combination of pictures created on June 2, 2025 shows from left: a satellite image taken and released by Planet Labs PBC on June 2, 2025, showing a pre-strike image of the Ivanovo Airbase east of Moscow, captured on May 22, 2025, and a satellite image taken and released by Planet Labs PBC on June 2, 2025, showing a post-strike image of Ivanovo Airbase, east of Moscow captured on June 2, 2025. — 2025 Planet Labs PBC handout pic via AFP
MOSCOW, June 3 — Ukrainian shelling and drone attacks triggered power cuts over swathes of Russian-controlled territory in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions in the south of Ukraine, Russia-installed officials said early on Tuesday.
Officials said there was no effect on operations at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station — Europe’s largest nuclear facility which was seized by Russia in the weeks after Moscow’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Russian officials running the plant said radiation levels were normal at the facility, which operates in shutdown mode and produces no power at the moment.
Russia-installed governors in the two regions said the Ukrainian attacks prompted authorities to introduce emergency measures and switch key sites to reserve power sources.
Power was knocked out to all parts of Zaporizhzhia under Russian control, Russia-installed Governor Yevgeny Belitsky wrote on Telegram.
“As a result of shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, high-voltage equipment was damaged in the northwestern part of the Zaporizhzhia region,” Belitsky wrote.
“There is no electricity throughout the region. The Energy Ministry of Zaporizhzhia region has been instructed to develop reserve sources of power. Health care sites have been transferred to reserve power sources.”
In adjacent Kherson region, farther west, Russia-appointed Governor Vladimir Saldo said debris from fallen drones had damaged two substations, knocking out power to more than 100,000 residents of 150 towns and villages in Russian-held areas. Emergency crews working to restore power quickly, he said.
For many long months in the winter, it was Ukrainian towns and villages that endured repeated electricity cuts as Russian attacks focused strikes on generating capacity.
Each side has repeatedly accused the other of launching attacks on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and running the risk of a nuclear accident.
The UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said last week in response to a Ukrainian complaint that it saw no sign that Russia was preparing to restart the Zaporizhzhia plant and connect it to the Russian grid.
The IAEA has stationed monitors permanently at Zaporizhzhia and Ukraine’s other nuclear power stations. — Reuters
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