June 8, 2026 — 6:02am
London: Russian forces have struck a fuel storage facility at the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine on the eve of talks in London about the need for stronger air defence to shield targets from missile strikes.
A Russian drone blasted parts of a building at the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster that spread radiation across the region, although authorities said no spent nuclear fuel was being stored in the facility at the time of the attack.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the move as an “extremely vile” Russian attack using a Shahed drone in what he termed a deliberate move.
“Russia deliberately struck this particular nuclear infrastructure facility,” he said before arriving in London for the talks with leaders from Britain, France and Germany.
