‘Emergency situation’: Russian strike causes hours-long blackout at Chornobyl nuclear plant; Zelenskyy warns of ‘global threat’

A Russian strike on Slavutych caused a several-hour blackout at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant on Oct 1, affecting the New Safe Confinement. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy accused Russia of deliberately endangering global security. Power was restored, with radiation levels normal, but this followed a critical, record-long outage at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia plant.