{"id":262660,"date":"2025-10-31T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/262660\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:22:11","slug":"ukraine-nuclear-warning-after-russian-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/262660\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Nuclear Warning after Russian Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Russian strikes have damaged nuclear substations in Ukraine, leading the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to issue a &#8220;critical&#8221; warning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Power to three nuclear power plants has been affected after Russian strikes on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">The IAEA said teams at South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant and Khmelnitsky Nuclear Power Plant reported the plants had lost access to one of their off-site power lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">In a statement, the IAEA said: &#8220;The IAEA has been informed of military activity in Ukraine early this morning that has led to damage to substations critical to nuclear safety and security in Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">IAEA director General Grossi said: &#8220;The dangers to nuclear safety continue to be very real and ever-present.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"10970641\" alt=\"\" caption=\"Emergency personnel examine the site of an airstrike after a Russian missile hit a hostel in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo\/Kateryna Klochko)\" credit=\"\" sourcealt=\"\" sources=\"[]\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;aspect-ratio:inherit;object-fit:cover\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25303263028330-1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">&#8220;I once again call for maximum military restraint in the vicinity of nuclear facilities and full respect of the seven indispensable pillars for nuclear safety and security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Separately, Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, said Russia has launched an attack on the Slovyansk Thermal Power Plant on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">&#8220;This is outright terror. Normal people don\u2019t wage war like this, and the world must respond appropriately to such Russian warfare,&#8221; he said in a post on X on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">This is a developing news story. Updates to follow.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian strikes have damaged nuclear substations in Ukraine, leading the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to issue a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,1206,452,453,1208,6508,15285],"class_list":{"0":"post-262660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-ukraine","16":"tag-vladimir-putin","17":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}