Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Energy, and all relevant agencies are working to ensure that international partners are informed about what President Volodymyr Zelensky described as a deliberate Russian strike on the Centralized Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility near the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
According to Ukrinform, Zelensky announced this in a Facebook post.
“Today, the Russians again struck the special territory around the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. A Shahed hit one of the buildings of the Centralized Spent Fuel Storage Facility. An extremely critical infrastructure facility – and an extremely vile Russian strike. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the Ministry of Energy, and all our services are already working to ensure that each of our partners knows what has happened,” Zelensky said.
The President stressed that there were no readings exceeding normal background radiation levels and that Ukrainian emergency responders had quickly extinguished the fire at the facility after the strike. At the same time, he called on the international community to take concrete new steps that would force the aggressor to face the consequences of what he described as its terrorist war.
