‘She went through hell’: widow of Chornobyl engineer is killed in Russian drone strike on Kyiv

Zelenskyy says Nataliia Khodemchuk is victim of new tragedy caused by Kremlin', four decades after disaster

The widow of the first Soviet engineer to die in the Chornobyl nuclear power plant explosion was killed on Friday in Russia's massive drone and missile attack on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy described Nataliia Khodemchuk as the victim of a new tragedy caused by the Kremlin", nearly four decades after her husband, Valerii, was killed inside Chornobyl's nuclear reactor number four.