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On the afternoon of October 3rd, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched strike on the city of Kurchatov in the Russian border Kursk region. A fire broke out in the area about 4 kilometers from the Kursk nuclear power plant in the city.
The local governor reported that Russian electronic warfare means suppressed Ukrainian UAV of the aircraft type over the city. As a result of the fall of the intercepted drone, household outbuildings unrelated to the nuclear power station were damaged. In its turn, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that three Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed in the Kursk region.
Operation of the Kursk NPP was not disrupted.
The local residents shared footage of the fire and detonation in the area. Some observers supposed that Ukrainian drone or missile reached the target and destroyed a military warehouse or air defense system in the area. However, the Russian military is not famous for deploying air defense systems right in the residential areas and the footage shows that the detonation was not large enough as it could be in the case of destruction of a military warehouse. Most likely, some industrial equipment exploded as a result of the fire.
No matter whether the strike in Kurchatov was successful or not, the Ukrainian military supported by NATO gave a clear sign that it is not going to abandon its tactics of nuclear terror.
On September 29th, artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the Raduga energy substation that supports the operations of the Zaporozhie NPP in the city of Energodar.
