Zelensky said in an online post he was in London and would meet British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.Kyiv is asking its Western allies for more ammunition deliveries for its anti-air defences as Ukraine endures daily Russian strikes. Zelensky is also seeking ways for the allies to further pressure Russia to end the fighting.On Sunday, Russia fired waves of drones and other munitions at Ukraine, with one of the attacks damaging a nuclear storage facility in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Ukrainian officials said.Radiation levels at the facility remained within normal limits following the attack, although its fuel reception building was "partially destroyed", according to Ukraine's nuclear energy operator, Energoatom.Moscow and Kyiv have intensified drone strikes on each other in recent months, as US-led diplomatic efforts to end the war -- now in its fifth year -- remain stalled and sidetracked by the conflict in the Middle East.
A building at the facility was 'partially destroyed', according to Ukraine's nuclear energy operator Energoatom © Handout / Ukraine's Energoatom nuclear energy operator/AFP
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has rejected direct peace talks proposed by his Ukrainian counterpart.Zelensky, in an earlier online post, said Russia had used an Iranian-designed Shahed drone to "hit one of the buildings of the Centralized Spent Fuel Storage Facility" in the Chernobyl exclusion zone."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," he said.The International Atomic Energy Agency said it was dispatching a team to inspect the damage, calling the incident "deeply concerning".The facility is located in a remote area of forest around a dozen kilometres (seven miles) from the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and is designed to house spent fuel from Ukraine's three active nuclear plants.Deadly strikesBoth sides accused each other of renewed attacks on civilians Sunday.A Russian bombardment of a public transport stop in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region left at least two people dead, while a nearby drone strike killed a 56-year-old minibus driver, authorities said.
