Ukraine said Moscow¡¯s forces struck a nuclear fuel storage facility near the mothballed Chernobyl power plant north of Kyiv, an incident that drew a sharp retort from the U.N.¡¯s atomic watchdog.
The Ukrainian General Staff said a Russian Shahed drone had hit a building that¡¯s part of the centralized spent fuel storage facility within the Chernobyl exclusion zone. A small fire was extinguished within an hour, the General Staff posted on Telegram.
Russia hasn¡¯t commented on the incident.
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