Ukraine says Russia hit a fuel storage building at the Chernobyl nuclear plant as International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said the incident was “deeply concerning”17:00, 07 Jun 2026President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Vladimir Putin’s Russia of deliberately hitting a nuclear storage facility at Chernobyl.‌The Ukrainian leader called the incident “extremely vile”, the International Atomic Energy Agency, which said it had been briefed by Ukraine, said the strike damaged a fuel-reception building mere metres away from where “large amounts of nuclear material” is stored. No spike in radiation was recorded, and Energoatom, Ukraine’s state atomic agency, said spent fuel was not stored in the building at the time of the strike.‌“An extremely critical infrastructure facility – and an extremely vile Russian strike,” Zelensky wrote in a post on the social media site X. “As of now, there are no readings exceeding normal background radiation levels. But there is certainly an increase in Russia’s brazenness, which long ago went off the charts.”‌The International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said the incident was “deeply concerning”. Elsewhere, a Russian drone strike killed three people waiting at a bus stop in southeastern Ukraine on Sunday, an official said.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. And a Ukrainian attack killed one man and injured a woman in Russia’s Kursk region, local Governor Alexander Khinshtein said.‌The developments came as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer hosts Zelensky and the leaders of France and Germany for talks on ongoing support for Kyiv. The meeting on Sunday evening followed a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack that targeted St Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, underscoring Kyiv’s growing ability to hit deep inside Russia.Governor Alexander Beglov said three people sustained minor injuries in Saturday’s attack, during which residents were advised to stay indoors. With the front line barely moving as swarms of drones hinder advances, both sides have sought an edge by launching long-range strikes.‌The St Petersburg attack, which came less than 24 hours after the end of the city’s flagship economic forum, was an embarrassing blow to Putin’s efforts to cast the conflict as a distant event that does not affect Russian daily life. Putin on Friday rejected Zelensky’s offer for a meeting, saying he sees “no point” in it.Thursday’s letter, the first public message Zelensky has written directly to Putin since Russia sent troops into Ukraine in 2022, featured a sweeping critique of the Russian leader’s 26 years in power, as well as some taunts about his age. Responding to Putin’s dismissal of the proposed meeting, Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said on Saturday that things would “only get worse for Russia”.Article continues below“Failures will get more humiliating,” he wrote on X, warning that there are “no safe places in Russia that can be exempt” from Ukrainian long-range attacks, and that the intensity of attacks “will continue to grow”.With the front line barely moving as swarms of drones hinder advances, both sides have sought an edge by launching long-range strikes.