Attacks on and around nuclear sites have become increasingly normalised during the war in Ukraine and the consequences could be disastrous, military watchers have warned.

Russia accused Ukraine this week of launching a drone attack which damaged Kursk nuclear power plant , which sits around 37 miles from the Ukrainian border, on Sunday.

The power plant authorities said that air defences shot down a drone that detonated near by just after midnight.

The incident damaged an auxiliary transformer and caused the plant capacity to drop by 50 per cent, they said.

The incident came on the day that Ukraine marked its 34th anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union.

Ukraine has not commented on the incident, but one Ukrainian military insider told The i Paper troops had been ord

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