Car bombing targeted Aleksandr Kolesnikov, an official involved in organizing the Russian referendum, who died en route to hospital.
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Car bombing targeted Aleksandr Kolesnikov, an official involved in organizing the Russian referendum, who died en route to hospital.
Russian official Vladimir Rogov reported via Telegram that forests are burning near the Zaporizhzhia NPP.
Enerhodar Mayor Dmytro Orlov stated that fires near the Zaporizhzhia NPP continued to burn on August 26.
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.
A large forest fire broke out near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
Russian shelling caused power and water outages in Energodar and started a forest fire near the Ukrainian border.
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