There is a war going on between Russia and Ukraine for the last 3 years. Meanwhile, the armies of both the countries keep attacking each other. Russia launched a fierce attack with drones and missiles from the night of Friday (7 November 2025) to the morning of Saturday (8 November 2025). According to Reuters report, the substations supplying electricity to two nuclear power plants, Khmelnitsky and Rivne, were targeted in the Russian attack.

On the matter, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrei Sibiha said, “These attacks were not carried out by mistake.” Russia has deliberately endangered nuclear security in Europe. At least seven people have died and many have been injured in the attacks. Three people died when a drone fell on a residential building in the city of Dnieper, while three people were confirmed dead in Zaporizhia and one in Kharkiv.

Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko said the attacks had caused massive damage to energy infrastructure in the Kiev, Poltava and Kharkiv regions. Electricity and water supply has been disrupted in thousands of houses. Poltava officials said power generators were being used to provide water. Government energy company Tsentrenergo described it as the biggest attack since the war began in February 2022. The company said that the enemy country has attacked all our production capacities at the same time. Our plants are on fire. Electricity production has become zero. Tsentrenergo produces about 8% of Ukraine’s electricity, so the attacks took a heavy toll on the national power grid.

Concern over nuclear security, demand for IAEA meeting

Foreign Minister Andrei Sibiha demanded an immediate meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He appealed to China and India to put pressure on Russia to stop such attacks, which could lead to a devastating nuclear accident at any time. Remember that Russia had earlier also fired shells near the Zaporizhia nuclear plant, which had created a situation of radiation danger in Europe.

Russia clarified that these were retaliatory attacks

The Russian Defense Ministry issued a statement saying that this attack was carried out in response to drone attacks carried out by Kiev inside Russia. The ministry said Russia attacked weapons production facilities, gas and energy installations with high-precision long-range air, land and sea weapons. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed to the international community to impose more stringent sanctions on Russia’s energy sector. Zelensky also said that Russia fired 450 drones and 45 missiles in just one night. The Ukrainian Air Force claimed that it shot down 406 of these drones and 9 missiles, but 26 missiles and 52 drones fell on 25 targets.

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