““Increasing the power of nuclear power plants to nominal values will take place gradually, as soon as the energy companies restore networks damaged by the enemy””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Increasing the power of nuclear power plants to nominal values will happen gradually, as soon as the energy companies restore networks damaged by the enemy,” he said during a briefing at the Ministry of Energy.
Nekrasov stated that the strikes of the Russian Federation affecting the nuclear power plant are a “gross violation of international requirements regarding nuclear safety” that “should not remain outside the attention of the world community.”
The Russian army massively attacked Ukraine during the night. An air alert was declared on the entire territory of Ukraine. The Air Force reported that Russian forces used 38 missiles and 635 UAVs of various types, about 400 of which were Shahedi. Air defense forces neutralized 587 drones and 34 cruise missiles. Hits were recorded at 21 locations.
In the morning of December 23, emergency power cuts were introduced in a number of regions of Ukraine.
At least three people are known to have died. Kyiv OVA provided data on the dead person and three victims in the region. In Zhytomyr Oblast, a child died due to an attack by the Russian Federation, five more people were injured, and a dead person was also reported in Khmelnytsky Oblast. Five people were injured in Kyiv.
According to the government, energy facilities in the western regions were the most affected during the strike. The Ministry of Energy reported that consumers in Rivne, Ternopil, and Khmelnytskyi regions were almost completely cut off, as well as power cuts in Vinnytsia, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, and Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv regions due to shelling.