Russian drone hits building storing spent nuclear fuel near Chornobyl
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A Russian drone struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near Ukraine's Chornobyl nuclear power plant on the night of June 6–7, partially destroying the container reception building, though no spent fuel was stored in the targeted structure. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy condemned the attack as deliberately targeting critical nuclear infrastructure near the plant. International authorities confirmed that radiation levels at the site remained stable and within normal parameters, with the UN's nuclear watchdog detecting no increased radiation.
Attack was ‘extremely vile’ and deliberate, says Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy
A Russian Shahed drone has substantially damaged a building used to store spent nuclear fuel close to the disused Chornobyl nuclear power plant, in what Ukraine’s president described as a deliberate and “extremely vile” attack.
While the structure – the reception building of the spent fuel storage facility – was empty of containers at the time, the targeting of the sensitive site appeared to be direct messaging from Moscow amid an intensifying battle of long-range aerial strikes in which high-profile locations on both sides have been hit.
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