Reactor Shield Chernobil that hit Russian drone, says Ukraine star-news.press/wp

Russian drone attack hit the radiation shelter over the damaged reactor in the Černobil nuclock plant, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The night strike hit the plant shelter destroyed by the former fourth power plant, causing a fire that has then turned off, added. Russia has not commented yet.

From Friday morning, the radiation level did not increase in the plant, Zelensky said.

UN Nuclear Guardian, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said that staff and fire protection staff responded within the minutes with overnight explosion. No casualties were reported, the agency added.

IAEA, which accompanies nuclear security around the world, said that the level of radiation inside and outside Chernobil remains normal and stable.

The Agency remains at the “great warning” after the incident, with the Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi says that there is “there is no space for complacency.”

Chernobil is a place of worst nuclear accident in the world – a catastrophic explosion, which is 1986. sent a splash of radioactive material into the air, launched an emergency in Europe.

Zelensky published shots on X that appears to show the damage to the giant shield, made of concrete and steel, which covers the remains of reactors who lost the roof in the explosion.

The shield is designed to prevent further radioactive material that leaks in the next century. Measures 275m (900ft) widely and 108m (354ft) high and costs $ 1.6 billion (1.3 billion pounds) for construction.

Zelensky claimed that the attack shows that Russian President Vladimir Putin “definitely does not prepare for negotiations”, after us President Donald Trump said that Putin had agreed to start conversations with the end of the war in an announcement of surprise this week.

“Every night, Russia is conducting such attacks in Ukraine infrastructure and cities,” Zelensky said. He called for “unified pressure” to hold the responsibility of Moscow.

Later Zelensky will meet JD Vance and Secretary Marca Rubio for talks in Munich, with the war in Ukraine is expected to be dominated in the main security meeting of world leaders.

The strike in Chernobyl comes after the increased military activity about Zaporizhzhi nuclear power plant in Southern Ukraine, IAEA said.

In December, Ukraine and Russia accuses each other Run the drone attack On the convoy of vehicles carrying IAE experts moving into the Zaporizhzhia plant, which is the largest European nuclear cell.

Iaea Head Rafael Grossi condemned that attack on his staff as “unacceptable,” emphasizing that the Agency “worked on preventing a nuclear accident during the military conflict.”

The Agency called on holding last year when the attack on Zaporizhzhi raised the risk of a “large nuclear incident”. Russia and Ukraine Trash Over the attack in August.