Near miss on Ukraine nuclear power plant

Kyiv has accused Russia of “nuclear terrorism” after a missile strike narrowly missed Ukraine’s second-largest atomic power plant


Operating nuclear power plant 
Russian-controlled territory (Sep 19)
Nuclear power plant (shut down) 
Russian control before Feb 24


POLAND
BELARUS
Chernobyl (decommissioning)
Rivne
Kyiv
Khmelnytskyi
UKRAINE
SLOVAKIA
HUNGARY 
ROMANIA
MOLDOVA
RUSSIA
Zaporizhya (Russian- occupied)
LUHANSK OBLAST
Kharkiv 
Izyum
River Dnieper
Mykolaiv 
Kherson
DONETSK OBLAST
Sea of Azov
Odesa
CRIMEA Annexed by Russia in 2014
BLACK SEA
100km 60 miles


Sep 19, South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant: Powerful explosion within 300m of reactors damages nearby industrial equipment. All three reactors stable


Sources: Institute for the Study of War, Reuters, World Nuclear Association 
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