Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

You can get in touch with Maya by emailing [email protected]. A reported Russian drone has struck the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine, and videos of the explosion have spread on social media.

Ukraine’s nuclear ghosts were raised again on Friday after a drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of the plant at Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident.

Find him on Twitter @GabeWhisnant. The drone hit Chernobyl early Friday, creating a hole in the structure and briefly starting a fire. Kyiv blamed Russia for the attack. The Kremlin has denied ...

In an update on Thursday at 17:00 local time, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant operator said thermal imaging monitoring of the New Safe Confinement was continuing and parts of the exterior cut into ...

Firefighters worked across the weekend to tackle smouldering roof insulation in the giant protective shelter which covers Chernobyl's unit 4 following the drone strike on Friday. Radiation levels in ...

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 Chernobyl nuclear power plant, where Ukraine accused Russia of striking a radiation containment structure, is a defunct facility in Ukraine which was the site of the world's worst civil ...