Ukrainian officials say a Russian drone has struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant, though radiation levels at the site remain stable.
According to statements from Ukraine’s General Staff and the state atomic agency, the attack partially destroyed a container‑receiving building, but no spent fuel was being stored there at the time. A fire that broke out after the strike was quickly extinguished, and no injuries were reported.
Russia has not publicly commented on the alleged attack. The facility is located roughly 15 kilometres from the Chernobyl plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha condemned the incident, writing on X that it was “not the first time Russian forces are putting Ukrainian nuclear facilities at risk,” calling Russia’s actions “systemic, deliberate, and unacceptable.”
This is the second reported strike on Chernobyl‑related infrastructure in recent years. In February 2025, a Russian drone damaged the containment arch built over the destroyed reactor an attack Moscow denied.
Kyiv and Moscow have also repeatedly accused each other of endangering the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Europe’s largest, which remains under Russian occupation.
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