Ukrainian officials have said a Russian drone struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Authorities said radiation levels remain within normal limits. Ukraine’s General Staff and the state nuclear agency reported that the drone hit a building at the Centralised Spent Fuel Storage Facility, located about 15 kilometres from the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
They added that a container-receiving building at the facility was partially damaged in the strike. However, no spent nuclear fuel was present in the structure at the time. A fire broke out after the attack but was later extinguished, and no casualties were reported.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the strike, saying Russia had deliberately targeted critical nuclear infrastructure and warning that such incidents demonstrate increasing recklessness.
