Russian officials said that Ukrainian drones inflamed an overnight fire in a nuclear power plant in the Kursk region in Russia.
The strikes coincided with the 34th Independence Day of Ukraine and marked the 1991 break of the Soviet Union.
Russia said the strikes affect different power facilities. The plant fire was quickly put out. A transformer was damaged, but radiation levels remained normal and no injuries were reported.
The UN nuclear watchdog said it was aware of media reports of a transformer fire “because of military activities”, but had not confirmed it independently.
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Director -General Rafael Mariano Grossi said: “Every nuclear facility must be protected at all times.”
A fire also broke out in the port of Ust-Luga in the Russian region of Leningrad, the home of a large terminal for fuel output.
The regional governor said that around 10 Ukrainian drones were shot in the area and that debris led the fire.
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The Russian Ministry of Defense said that air defenses have intercepted Russian territory on Sunday 95 Ukrainian drones.
The Air Force of Ukraine said that Russia launched 72 drones and Lokvogels and a cruise rocket at night; 48 drones were shot or stuck.
President Volodyymyr Zenskyy spoke in a video of Kyiv’s Independence Square.
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“We are building a Ukraine that will have sufficient power and power to live in safety and peace,” he said, and called for a “just peace.”
“What will be our future is only ours,” he said, which he recognized the US-Russia summit in Alaska earlier this month, many of which are worried that the Ukrainian interests would go aside.
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“And the world knows this. And the world respects this. It respects Ukraine. It regards Ukraine as an equal,” he said.
The Associated Press has contributed to this report.
