Russian drone hit nuclear fuel storage facility near Chernobyl, Ukraine says

Source: NBC News/Reuters

June 7, 2026, 6:13 AM EDT


A Russian drone struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near Ukraine‘s disused Chernobyl power plant, Ukrainian officials ⁠said on Sunday, adding that radiation levels at the site remained stable.

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

Russia has not publicly commented on the alleged attack on the ‌facility, which is located around ‌9 miles from the Chernobyl plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

“This ⁠is not the first time Russian forces are putting Ukrainian nuclear facilities at risk,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote on X.

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