The President Ukrainian Volodimir Zelenski said that a Russian drone hit the protection of the nuclear plant destroyed in the early hours of this Friday Chernobyl.
The State Emergency Service of Ukraine later declared that the reference radiation limits were maintained within normality.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied the Ukrainian accusation this Friday.
Last Night, Russian Attack Drone With A High-explaosive Warhead Struck The Shelter Protting the World From Radiation at The Destroyed 4th Power Unit of The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
This Shelter was Built by Ukraine Together with Other Countries of Europe and The World, … pic.twitter.com/mltGedygpt
– Volodymyr Zelenskyy / володимир зеленсьий (@zelenskyyua) February 14, 2025
The International Atomic Energy Agency later alleged that shortly before 2 am local time its team on the Chernobyl site “heard an explosion from the new safe confinement, which protects the remains of the reactor 4 of the former Chernobil nuclear power plant, causing a fire ”.
Peskov told the media that it did not have exact information. “But I know one thing: you can’t talk about attacks against nuclear infrastructure or nuclear energy facilities. Therefore, any statement in this regard is not true. ”
The Kremlin spokesman added: “The Russian military do not do this. Most likely, it is another provocation, a montage. ”
Chernobil unit 4, near the border of Ukraine with Belarus exploded in 1986, sending extensive clouds of radioactivity to parts of the Soviet Union and Europe. Subsequently, it was locked in a concrete and steel sarcophagus.
The sarcophagus was the work of an international coalition and took decades to build. Finally it ended in 2017 and weighs 35,000 tons.
The incident occurred hours before the start of the Munich High Level Security Conference, in Germany, where the United States vice president JD Vance, plans to meet Zelenski.
Within the framework of this conference, Zelenski had already met this Friday with a bipartisan delegation of the United States Senate.
As he said from X, “we have talked about the need to continue supporting Ukraine and the necessary efforts to achieve fair peace. The Russian Federation does not want to end war and continue to increase world tensions. ”
With information from CNN and EFE.
