{"id":1297678,"date":"2025-09-26T10:13:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/an-explosion-thundered-over-the-south-ukrainian-npp-what-is-known-about-the-damage\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T10:13:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:13:58","slug":"an-explosion-thundered-over-the-south-ukrainian-npp-what-is-known-about-the-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/an-explosion-thundered-over-the-south-ukrainian-npp-what-is-known-about-the-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"An explosion thundered over the South Ukrainian NPP: what is known about the damage"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the night of September 26, an explosion was recorded in the area near the South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant – a drone that approached the perimeter of the plant was shot down less than a kilometer from the strategic facility.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was announced by<\/a> IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, emphasizing a new episode of dangerous drones approaching Ukrainian nuclear infrastructure.<\/p>\n

According to the international agency, during the night, IAEA observers near the nuclear power plant heard a series of explosions and gunfire. At about 01:00, one of the drones was shot down, after which a crater measuring 4 square meters and up to one meter deep was recorded at the crash site.<\/p>\n

“We are observing a systematic threat. This time the South Ukrainian station was not affected, but next time it may be different,” Grossi emphasized.<\/p>\n

In total, at least 22 drones were recorded flying over the region during the evening and night, some of which approached the object by less than 500 meters.<\/p>\n

The explosion caused shrapnel to damage nearby metal structures, break car windows, and knock out a 150-kilovolt regional power line. However, the IAEA notes that this power line was not connected to the nuclear power plant itself, so the incident did not affect nuclear safety.<\/p>\n

According to preliminary data, there are no victims or injuries.<\/p>\n

The South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant is one of three operating nuclear power plants in Ukraine. As of now, all three of its power units are operating at full capacity.<\/p>\n

We remind you that the IAEA observation mission operating on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant reported another dangerous situation – on September 17, shelling continued in the area of the plant, and three columns of black smoke were seen above the surroundings.<\/a><\/p>\n

As reported later, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has once again completely lost contact with the Ukrainian power system \u2014 the last external power line was turned off at 4:56 p.m. on September 23.<\/a> This is the tenth blackout at the plant since the beginning of its occupation by the Russians.<\/p>\n

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On the night of September 26, an explosion was recorded in the area near the South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant – a drone that approached the perimeter of the plant was shot down less than a kilometer from the strategic facility. This was announced by IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, emphasizing a new episode […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":832149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76874,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1297678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}