Vladimir Putin has delivered a victory speech at his campaign headquarters in Moscow, after preliminary results of the country’s presidential vote from Russia’s Central Election Commission showed him securing a fifth term in office with over 87% of the vote. Speaking in front of his supporters on Sunday night, Putin stressed …
Read More »Musk lashes out at ‘eco-terrorists’ over power outage at Tesla plant
A shadowy left-wing group has said it was behind the suspected arson that prompted the shutdown of a major Tesla plant near Berlin. The authorities and Tesla owner Elon Musk have condemned the actions of “terrorists.” Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg in Gruenheide was evacuated on Tuesday when a nearby electricity pylon …
Read More »‘US lacks power and wits in showdown with independent countries’ – N. Korea
North Korea’s deputy foreign minister has accused the US of “unjust and outrageous hostility” towards Pyongyang and Moscow, saying it shows Washington’s hegemonic mentality based on Cold War logic. “The US ill-minded repugnancy toward the North Korea-Russia relations only reveals that it lacks power and wits in the showdown with …
Read More »Russian reactor for major Chinese nuclear power plant arrives
Russia has delivered some 1,700 tons of state-of-art nuclear equipment to China, including a reactor hull and four steam generators for the Tianwan nuclear power plant. The facility already has four older VVER-1000 water-water energetic reactors among its six operational units and is set to receive two more VVER-1200 reactors, …
Read More »Russia greenlights loan for power plant in EU state
The Russian government has approved a state loan to finance the construction of two nuclear reactors for Hungary’s Paks Nuclear Power Plant, known as the Paks-2 project, according to a decree published on the government’s official portal for legal information on Saturday. Under the decree, Moscow has pledged to allocate …
Read More »Russian nuclear giant claims Ukrainian attack on power plant imminent
Ukraine is expected to launch a large-scale attack on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) overnight, a senior Russian atomic energy industry official warned late on Tuesday. Kiev may also strike the plant with a missile stuffed with radioactive waste, he added. The warning was voiced by Renat Karchaa, a …
Read More »Ukraine tried to attack nuclear power plant – local officials
Russian air defenses have intercepted three drones armed with explosive warheads that were headed towards the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant on Friday, local authorities told RT. The attack came after Moscow had warned Kiev against any attacks on Europe’s largest atomic energy station. Electronic warfare specialists detected the UAVs and brought them …
Read More »New wave of strikes reported against Ukrainian power grid
Multiple critical infrastructure facilities across Ukraine came under attack on Saturday, local officials and media outlets have reported. The strike has prompted emergency power outages in several regions of the country, Energy Minister German Galuschenko has said. “There were hits in Kharkov, Lviv, Ivano-Frankovsk, Zaporozhye, Vinnytsia and Kiev regions,” …
Read More »Last power unit switched off at Zaporozhye nuclear plant
The last working power unit was switched off at the Russia-controlled Zaporozhye nuclear power station early on Sunday, the local authorities and the plant’s Ukrainian operator said. The sixth reactor “was stopped at 3:45am. Now it doesn’t generate electricity,” Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Zaporozhye Region administration, told RIA-Novosti. …
Read More »Ukraine bombs nuclear plant, resulting in power cuts – reports
Artillery of the Ukrainian armed forces attacked the area of Energodar and the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant more than a dozen times over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. Three rounds struck inside the NPP, causing damage but no radiation leaks so far. The shelling happened …
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