MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said that it had prevented a Ukrainian drone attack on the Smolensk nuclear power plant in western Russia on Sunday.
The Soviet-era Smolensk nuclear power station, about 330 km (200 miles) southwest of Moscow near the border with Belarus, has three RBMK reactors – the same basic design as the reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power station.
The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said that Russian radio-electronic warfare systems intercepted a Ukrainian drone over the territory of the Smolensk nuclear power station.
“Electronic warfare forces intercepted an aircraft-type UAV – a Ukrainian-made ‘Spis’ attack UAV – over the territory of the Smolensk Nuclear Power Plant,” the FSB said in a statement.
“The Ukrainian armed