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title: "Russia warns against attack"
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url: "https://cbrneworld.com/threats-news/middle-east/russia-warns-against-attack"
date: "2026-07-30T21:14:04+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
---

#  Russia warns against attack

 Written on 30 July 2026.

The head of Russia’s nuclear energy corporation warned that an Israeli strike on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant could lead to a “Chernobyl-style disaster.”

An Israeli military spokesman said Israel had struck the site, but an Israeli military official later called the statement a “mistake” and said he could neither confirm nor deny that the Bushehr site on the Gulf coast had been hit. Bushehr is Iran’s only operational nuclear power plant, built by Russia, Reuters reported.

“If there is a strike on the operational first power unit, it will be a catastrophe comparable to Chernobyl,” state news agency RIA quoted Alexei Likhachev as saying. Russia has evacuated some of its experts from Bushehr, but the core workforce – which Putin said numbered hundreds – remained on site.

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