Russian Drone Strikes Nuclear-Fuel Storage Site Near Chornobyl, Ukraine Says

Ukraine said a Russian drone struck a nuclear-fuel storage facility near the Chornobyl plant, an attack President Zelenskyy called vile, according to Deutsche Welle. The International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations nuclear watchdog, reported no increase in radiation at the site.

Kyiv's general staff and its state atomic agency said a container-receiving building was partially destroyed but that no spent fuel was stored there at the time, The Hindu reported. That detail limited the immediate danger while underscoring how close the war keeps coming to nuclear infrastructure.

Russia, in turn, accuses Ukraine of endangering atomic sites. The state agency RIA Novosti carried claims that Ukrainian forces shelled Enerhodar, the town beside the Zaporizhzhia plant, part of a long pattern in which each side blames the other for risks around reactors. Independent verification of these competing claims is difficult.

The repeated targeting near nuclear facilities is the most dangerous feature of the war. A serious accident would be a low-probability event with extreme consequences across Europe, the kind of risk that markets cannot easily price and that diplomacy has so far failed to remove.