Ukraine, over two years into fighting a full-scale Russian invasion, launched a counter-invasion into Russia on August 6, seizing significant territory in the Kursk border region and rapidly threatening to expand into neighboring Belgorod and Bryansk, but since halting mostly in Kursk. Ukrainian officials initially omitted public discussion on the operation, but ultimately described it as necessary to create a “buffer zone” that blocks Russia from deploying troops into war-torn, occupied eastern Ukraine.
Concerns about a nuclear accident at the Kursk Power Plant add to years of alarm surrounding the Russian presence at a similar facility in Zaporizhzhia, a Ukrainian territory that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin “annexed” in September 2022. Both Russia and Ukraine have for years accused each other of plotting to weaponize the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant by bombing it, effectively turning it into a “dirty” weapon.
The site of the worst nuclear disaster in history, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, also attracted alarm in the early days of the full-scale Russian invasion, as soldiers occupied it, but Ukraine ultimately regained control of the Chernobyl exclusion zone and it has since become less of a concern than the more functional sites in Zaporizhzhia and Kursk.
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Concerns about a nuclear accident at the Kursk Power Plant add to years of alarm surrounding the Russian presence at a similar facility in Zaporizhzhia, a Ukrainian territory that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin “annexed” in September 2022. Both Russia and Ukraine have for years accused each other of plotting to weaponize the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant by bombing it, effectively turning it into a “dirty” weapon.
The site of the worst nuclear disaster in history, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, also attracted alarm in the early days of the full-scale Russian invasion, as soldiers occupied it, but Ukraine ultimately regained control of the Chernobyl exclusion zone and it has since become less of a concern than the more functional sites in Zaporizhzhia and Kursk.
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U.N. Nuclear Watchdog: Ukraine's Russia Invasion Threatening Soviet-Era Plant
The IAEA announced its Director-General Rafael Grossi will visit the Russian region of Kursk next week to examine its nuclear power plant.
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