A Russian drone caused considerably harmful overnight in the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, a claim that the Kremlin received.
Zelenskyy and the united nations’ energy guards stated that the radiation levels remained normal at the Munich, Ukrainian and European civil servants at the Munich Security Conference to discuss the war in Ukraine.
The spokesman for Kreml, Dmitry Peskov, dismissed Ukraine’s claim as a “provocation” and said that he had no precise information about the alleged incident, but that Russia does not attack the nuclear infrastructure.
Chornobyl was the place of the worst civilian nuclear disaster in the world when one of his four reactors exploded in 1986. This reactor is now enveloped by protection protection in order to contain the persistent radiation.
The last functioning reactor in Chornobyl was closed in 2000. At the beginning of the invasion, Russia occupied the work and the surrounding area for more than a month for more than a month, while he was towards the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
Overnight strike
The Russian drone hit the protection of the destroyed power unit in the factory and caused a fire that was deleted since then, Zelenskyy wrote in the telegram app.
“According to the initial assessments, the damage to the protection is considerable,” he said.
Svitlana Vodolaha, the Ukrainian emergency spokesman Svitlana, said that the attack caused damage to the shelter in some areas.
The experts will work on checking the exact scale of the attack, which took place around 2 a.m., Vodolaha added a Ukrainian television broadcast.
Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian president, published photos of the shelter with an apparently small fire near the tip of his huge arc.
“The only country in the world that attacks such sites is occupied by nuclear power plants and deletes war regardless of the consequences, today’s Russia is,” said Zelenskyy.
Dozens of countries help finance protection
The animal shelter known as a new detention is a hulking, arched steel and concrete structure, which was completed in 2019 to cover an earlier Soviet version that had deteriorated.
Zelenskyy told reporters at the Munich Security Conference that the drone flew at an altitude of 85 meters, which prevented it from being discovered by the Ukraine radar.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy excludes every peace agreement with Russia, which does not affect the direct participation of Ukraine. US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin now say that Zelenskyy will play a role in the talks after he has agreed to end the war in a recent call.
The new safe restriction is 108 meters high and 162 meters high, extends over 257 meters and, according to the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, has a lifespan of at least 100 years.
According to the EBRD, the new secure restriction cost 1.5 billion euros (2.26 billion US dollars) and was financed by 45 donor countries and institutions, including Canada.
According to Yermak, the United States had contributed significant amounts of money and efforts to set up the new security structure.
“Today we will provide our American partners a lot of information about the strikes of Russia on the Chornobyl nuclear power plant about the constant about the chornobyl zone about the risk of protection and nuclear security that they are constantly starting,” Yermak wrote telegram.
“The atmosphere is at the moment that everyone is very angry about this news here in Munich. Not” worried “, as is often the case, but really angry.”
In 1986, a nuclear accident in Chornobyl contaminated, which Ukraine a large part of Belarus and other European countries, which led to high cancer rates. The organization Séjour Santé Enfants Tchernobyl (SSET) helps the affected children by bringing them to Quebec for health stays. The program, which aims to reduce the radiation levels of Belarusian children, enables them to return to their age of 18 every summer.
At the sidelines of the conference, Kyiv’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha held an urgent meeting with the general director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi.
Zelenskyy was to meet Russia in a delicate diplomatic moment for Ukraine in his war on Friday with the US Vice President JD Vance. US President Donald Trump is pushing for quick negotiations and an end to war, but Ukraine and its European allies warn of negotiations in which only the United States and Russia are involved.
