Overview
- Ukraine’s air force said Saturday it intercepted or jammed 610 targets after Friday night’s mass strike, reporting 30 missiles and 580 drones downed as blasts killed and injured civilians in Dnipro and sparked a fire on a Panama-flagged ship departing an Odesa port.
- The EBRD said Thursday the full repair of Chernobyl’s New Safe Confinement will likely cost about €500 million, with short-term surface work needed now to stabilize the damaged structure and major works planned for 2028–2030 once donors commit funds.
- Analysts at DiXi Group counted at least 127 Russia-linked incidents since February 2022 that threatened nuclear or radiological safety, including 23 total power losses at plants, 25 direct strikes near or on sites, and 2 cases of damaged monitoring systems at Chernobyl, with nearly half of all incidents tied to Zaporizhzhia.
- U.S. Energy Department envoy Joshua Voltz said the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant must be made safe before talks on control, management, or status, noting the six-reactor site remains in cold shutdown under occupation with repeated external power losses.
- At a UN session marking the 40th year since the Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine’s ambassador Andriy Melnyk urged coordinated sanctions on Russia’s nuclear sector, arguing actions at Ukrainian nuclear sites endanger countries far beyond the war zone.