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The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...

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Chernobyl, sandwiched between Kyiv and the Belarusian border, was directly in the path of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. For a little more than a month, Russian troops occupied the exclusion zone ...

Mr Titarchuk told Ukraine's state news agency that "the situation is under control". A catastrophic explosion at Chernobyl in 1986 sent a plume of radioactive material into the air, triggering a ...

An alleged drone struck the protective shell covering the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine early Friday, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pointing the finger at Russia.

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION, Ukraine (AP) — A drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear plant early Friday, punching a hole in the structure ...

When the war began on 24 February 2022, explosions erupted near the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine’s northern Kyiv region. Earlier that day Russian troops had entered from the Belarus border ...