Medvedev threatens to attack nuclear facilities in Ukraine and Europe, following unconfirmed reports of attempted missile strike on Russian nuclear plant

Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, threatened to attack Ukraine’s nuclear power plants and other nuclear facilities in Eastern Europe in a post on his Telegram channel.

In his post, he refers to unconfirmed reports from the Telegram channel Mash that Ukraine’s Armed Forces allegedly tried to attack Russia’s Smolensk Nuclear Power Plant and a military air base in the Kaluga region using either 5В28 or British Storm Shadow missiles. The post claims that air defense systems shot down the missiles.

Authorities in the Smolensk and Kaluga regions did not report any incidents on July 9. The governor of neighbouring Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomaz, said that two missiles launched by Ukraine’s Armed Forces were shot down over the region, one of which fell in the village of Bytosh.

In his post, Medvedev wrote: “If the attempted NATO missile attack on Smolensk Nuclear Power Plant is confirmed, then it is necessary to consider the scenario of a Russian strike on the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant, Rivne Nuclear Power Plant, and Khmelnytskyi Nuclear Power Plant, as well as nuclear facilities in Eastern Europe […]”