Over 500 missiles and UAVs have flown near Ukrainian nuclear power plants since beginning of year

Since the beginning of 2025, over 500 missiles and drones of various types have been recorded flying in the immediate vicinity of Ukrainian nuclear power plants.

The Minister of Energy of Ukraine Svitlana Hrynchuk has stated this, her words are quoted by the press service of the department.

According to her, since the beginning of the year, over 500 missiles and drones have been recorded flying in 30-kilometer surveillance zones around Ukrainian nuclear power plants.

Hrynchuk emphasized that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the actions of the occupiers have led to 13 cases of complete loss of external power supply by nuclear power plants.

She called on the member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to give a decisive and coordinated response to the actions of the aggressor country russia.

"Nuclear energy should never be turned into a weapon of war," Hrynchuk emphasized.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on the night of September 9-10, two dozen drones flew near the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne Nuclear Power Plants during a massive air attack.

As a reminder, on August 12, a large-scale fire broke out on the territory of the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Later, it turned out that it did not affect the change in the radiation background.