On August 23, the Russian news agency TASS reported citing information from the Kursk regional government. which is under attack by the Ukrainian army They said that Ukraine had launched an attack on the Kursk nuclear power plant. Place a destroyer drone equipped with an RPG grenade. hoping to damage a nuclear fuel storage building But was thwarted by an anti-electronic signaling system.

The Russian authorities are considering It was an attempt at nuclear terrorism. The Russian media claims also come after the Russian government continued to announce that the Ukrainian army’s attack on the Kursk Region on August 6 specifically targeted a Russian nuclear power plant. Analysts believe that Ukraine might want to seize it and use it as a political bargaining tool.