Ukraine says the preventive cover is covered outside the Chornopil nuclear factory struck by Russian drones

Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski said on Friday that a Russian drone caused severe damage to the shelter containing radiation at Cornobel’s nuclear power plant overnight.

Zelenskyy and Anmer’s Energy Watchdog said that the levels of radiation remained normal after the accident, which was among the senior American, Ukrainian and European officials at the Munich Security Conference to discuss the war in Ukraine.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to claim Ukraine that he was “provoking”, saying he had no accurate information about the alleged accident, but Russia does not attack nuclear infrastructure.

Chornobyl was The site of the worst civil nuclear disaster in the worldWhen one of its four reactors exploded in 1986. This reactor is now moved by a protective shelter to contain the remaining radiation.

The last work reactor was closed in Chornobyl in 2000. Russia occupied the factory and the surrounding area For more than a month while pushing it towards the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, at the beginning of the invasion.

A strike overnight

Zelinski wrote on the Telegram app, causing a fire that has been extinguished since then, as Zelenskyy wrote on the Telegram app.

“According to the initial assessments, the damage to the shelter is important,” he said.

Svetlana Fodolha, a spokeswoman for emergency services in Ukraine, said that the attack caused damage to the shelter in areas.

Experts will check the exact scale of the attack, which occurred at about two in the morning local time, and Vodulah added on Ukrainian TV broadcast.

Andrei Yermak, Chief of Staff of the Ukrainian President, posted pictures of shelter as it seemed a small fire near his wide bow top.

“The only country in the world is attacking such sites, it occupies nuclear power plants and wages without any consideration of the consequences are Russia today,” Zellinski said.

Dozens of countries help finance shelter

The shelter, known as the new safe imprisonment, is a steel and cute structure in the form of an arc that was completed in 2019 to cover a previous version of the Soviet, which deteriorated.

Zelinski told the Munich Security Conference that the drone had flew at an altitude of 85 meters, which prevented her from monitoring Ukraine radars.

The new secure imprisonment is 108 meters and 162 meters, and it extends 257 meters and is at least 100 years old, according to the European reconstruction and development bank.

According to EBRD, new safe prison cost 1.5 billion euros ($ 2.26 billion) and funded by 45 donor countries and donors, including Canada.

Yermak said that the United States contributed large amounts of money and effort to build the new safe custody.

“We will provide a lot of information to our American partners today about Russia’s strikes at the Chornobel Nuclear Energy Station, about how it is constantly launching the drone over the Chornobel region, about the threat of shelter and the nuclear security they offer,” Yermak wrote on a telegram.

“The atmosphere at the present time is that everyone is very angry at this news here in Munich. Not” worried “, as often, but really angry.”

On the sidelines of the conference, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kiev Andre Sibi held an urgent meeting with the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi.

Zelinski had to meet on Friday in Munich with US Vice President JD Vance at a sensitive diplomatic moment for Ukraine in its war with Russia. US President Donald Trump is pushing rapid negotiations and ending the war, but Ukraine and its European allies warn of negotiations that only contain the United States and Russia.