Russian drone hits building storing spent nuclear fuel near Chornobyl

Attack was extremely vile' and deliberate, says Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy

A Russian Shahed drone has substantially damaged a building used to store spent nuclear fuel close to the disused Chornobyl nuclear power plant, in what Ukraine's president described as a deliberate and extremely vile" attack.

While the structure - the reception building of the spent fuel storage facility - was empty of containers at the time, the targeting of the sensitive site appeared to be direct messaging from Moscow amid an intensifying battle of long-range aerial strikes in which high-profile locations on both sides have been hit.