🔧 Sabotage

Car bombing targeted Aleksandr Kolesnikov, an official involved in organizing the Russian referendum, who died en route to hospital.

Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia
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Stefan Korshak (Substack) Ukrainska Pravda Kyiv Independent UNIAN Censor.NET

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Car bombing targeted Aleksandr Kolesnikov, an official involved in organizing the Russian referendum, who died en route to hospital.

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: certain

Russian official Vladimir Rogov reported via Telegram that forests are burning near the Zaporizhzhia NPP.

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: certain

Enerhodar Mayor Dmytro Orlov stated that fires near the Zaporizhzhia NPP continued to burn on August 26.

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: certain

Satellite images from August 24 showed smoke over the Zaporizhzhia thermal power plant ash dump and fires in the forest near the nuclear power plant.

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: likely

A large forest fire broke out near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

UNIAN → Source tone: certain

Russian shelling caused power and water outages in Energodar and started a forest fire near the Ukrainian border.

Censor.NET → Source tone: certain

All six ZNPP units remained disconnected from the grid despite the resumption of power lines, according to an IAEA statement.

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Extracted: 2026-05-30T04:15:30.999Z

Source story: day-185b-2023-02-13