Kyiv Warns Russian Strikes on Power Grid May Cause Atomic Crisis
- Energy chief says Moscow ‘knows what it’s doing’ with attacks
- Ten power substations critical for safety of nuclear reactors
Rivne nuclear power plant in Varash, Ukraine.
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Ukraine’s top energy official warned that further Russian airstrikes against the country’s energy grid could trigger an emergency at one of the three operating nuclear power plants still under Kyiv’s control.
Ukraine has thousands of electricity substations. But at stake are ten crucial nodes linked to nuclear power plants, whose destruction could plunge the country into darkness and provoke a radiological emergency, Ukraine’s Energy Minister German Galushchenko told Bloomberg News in an interview.