Russian Drone Strikes Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility Near Chernobyl, Ukraine Reports

Updated 1 minute 5 seconds ago

June 07, 2026 08:16

Russian Drone Strikes Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility Near Chernobyl, Ukraine Reports

• Russia has not publicly commented on the alleged attack on the facility
• Chernobyl plant is the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster

Updated 1 minute 5 seconds ago

Reuters

June 07, 2026 08:16

KYIV – A Russian drone struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near Ukraine’s abandoned Chernobyl power plant, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday. They added that radiation levels at the site remained stable.

In separate statements, Kyiv’s General Staff and the state atomic agency confirmed that a container‑receiving building had been partially destroyed, but noted that no spent fuel was stored there at the time of the attack. A resulting fire was extinguished, and no injuries were reported.

Russia has not publicly responded to the alleged attack on the facility, which is located approximately 15 km from the Chernobyl plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha posted on X that this is not the first time Russian forces have jeopardised Ukrainian nuclear facilities, describing Russia’s nuclear threats as “systemic, deliberate, and unacceptable.”

In February 2025, a Russian attack drone damaged a containment arch over the Chernobyl reactor that survived the 1986 explosion. Russia denied responsibility. Kyiv and Moscow have also traded accusations of targeting the Russian‑occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southeastern Ukraine, Europe’s largest.

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