“Ukrainian sabotage groups” blew up six powerline towers in the Kurchatov district of the Kursk region as a result of the disruption of the Kursk nuclear power plant, the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation reported on Tuesday. Monday, August 16th. According to her, the incidents took place on August 4, 9 and 12. Through the damaged power lines, the nuclear plant “provides energy to industry, transport, life support, social infrastructure and the population of the region and neighboring regions of the country,” the FSB noted.

It is alleged that the sabotage led to “a violation of the technological process of operation of the nuclear power plant”. No casualties were reported. Rosenergoatom, in turn, said that from August 4 to 12, the total capacity of the Kursk nuclear power plant “due to a malfunction in the substation” decreased, but now the nuclear plant has returned to its planned mode of operation, and the fund of radiation in the nuclear power plant area is normal.

Investigation Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on the terrorist attack

The Investigative Committee (CI) of Russia has opened a criminal case on the fact of the explosions of power lines under the article on the terrorist act. The FSB, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, is looking for criminals and their possible accomplices. The Russian Guard has tightened the security of the nuclear facilities.

Previously, attempts to mine power lines on August 4 and 9 in the Kursk region, which borders the territory of Ukraine, were reported by Baza. He writes on 16 August that in the area around the 14th kilometer of the Lgov-Lokinskaya section, the railroad tracks were also blown up.