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.

The shield "was never built to withstand external ... Alongside various angles of the hole in the shelter The incident at Chernobyl comes after increased military activity around the Zaporizhzhia ...

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 ...

The overnight strike at the nuclear plant, which is the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, caused a fire that has since been extinguished, he added. Russia has not yet commented. As of ...