A Russian drone struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in the Chernobyl exclusion zone on Sunday, Ukrainian officials said, accusing Moscow of once again putting nuclear infrastructure at risk.
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Authorities said radiation levels remained within normal limits despite damage to the site.
According to Reuters, Ukraine's general staff and state nuclear agency said a drone hit a building at the Centralised Spent Fuel Storage Facility, located about 15 kilometres from the disused Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986.
The agencies said a container-receiving building at the facility was partially destroyed in the strike.
However, no spent nuclear fuel was being stored in the affected structure at the time. A fire broke out following the attack but was later extinguished, and no casualties were reported.
