A Russian drone has hit the protective shelter over Chernobyl's damaged nuclear reactor, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The overnight strike at the site of the world's worst nuclear ...

A Russian drone strike has damaged the massive protective shield covering Chernobyl's infamous nuclear reactor, the BBC reports. The overnight attack caused a fire at the facility that houses the ...

Ukrainian nuclear safety experts have told RFE/RL it will "take time" and "significant funds" to repair damage to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's protective shield. Ukrainian officials said ...

President Zelenskyy says the strike was a "very clear greeting from Putin and Russian Federation" - a claim Moscow denies.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that an armed Russian drone struck and pierced the exterior protective shell over the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Chernobyl's last working reactor shut in 2000 ... provided a photograph that showed a hole in the roof of the outer shield, which is a massive steel-and-concrete structure weighing 36,000 tonnes ...

Emergency responders worked to “eliminate the consequences” of the February 14 drone strike on the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on February 18, Ukrainian officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

The exploding drone breached the outer shield but did not damage the older ... issued a statement on the strike on the Chernobyl plant, saying it was “a further escalation of the threat to ...

A drone with an explosive warhead has smashed a hole in the radiation shield at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. The plant's chief engineer, Alexander Titarchuk, said there was a ...

The structure at Chernobyl that was hit Friday is a huge ... The exploding drone breached the outer shield but did not damage the older, interior containment structure, Leontiy Derkach, a ...