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Russian drone hits building storing spent nuclear fuel near Chornobyl

Attack was ‘extremely vile’ and deliberate, says Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy A Russian Shahed drone has substantially damaged a building used to store spent nuclear fuel close to the disused Chornobyl nuclear power plant in what Ukraine’s president described as a deliberate and “extremely vile” attack.While the structure – the reception building of the spent fuel storage facility – was empty of containers at the time, the targeting of the sensitive site appeared to be direct messagin... Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called a Russian attack on a nuclear-storage facility near Chernobyl "vile." The UN's nuclear watchdog said no increased radiation had been registered at the site.
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  • Attack was ‘extremely vile’ and deliberate, says Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy A Russian Shahed drone has substantially damaged a building used to store spent nuclear fuel close to the disused Chornobyl nuclear power plant in what Ukraine’s president... S1
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called a Russian attack on a nuclear-storage facility near Chernobyl "vile." The UN's nuclear watchdog said no increased radiation had been registered at the site. S2
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