Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that a Russian drone caused significant damage to the radiation containment shelter at the disused Chornobyl nuclear power plant. However, both Zelenskyy and the UN’s atomic energy watchdog confirmed that radiation levels remain normal following the incident.
The attack coincided with the Munich Security Conference, where top U.S., Ukrainian, and European officials gathered to discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused Zelenskyy of orchestrating the drone strike to align with the Munich event, aiming to bolster Ukraine’s lobbying efforts for more Western weapons and financial support.
Chornobyl, the site of the world’s worst civil nuclear disaster, saw one of its four reactors explode in 1986. That reactor is now enclosed within a shelter to contain lingering radiation, with the plant’s last operational reactor shutting down in 2000.
