June 7, 2026 / 11:07 AM EDT
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Three people were killed in a Russian drone strike while waiting at a bus stop in southeastern Ukraine on Sunday, while a separate strike damaged a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near Chernobyl, Ukrainian officials said.In addition to the three killed, another person was wounded in the drone attack in Balabyne, in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region, the head of the regional military administration, Ivan Fedorov, wrote on his Telegram channel.The storage center damaged in the separate strike is located in the Kyiv region, just nine miles from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine's General Staff said. That attack "partially destroyed" the facility, which was empty at the time, Ukraine's state-owned nuclear operator Energoatom wrote on Telegram. It also sparked a fire, spanning roughly 40 square meters, or 430 square feet, the operator said.
An undated handout image from Ukraine's Energoatom, released June 7, 2026, shows damage to a spent nuclear fuel storage facility near Chernobyl, Ukraine.
