The Latest Breaking News from Chernobyl

Ukrainian officials say a Russian strike has hit a children’s hospital and maternity facility in the besieged southeastern port city of Mariupol

The UN's nuclear watchdog says monitoring systems are no longer transmitting data from the plant, which was the scene of the 1986 disaster, after it was taken over by Russian troops

Ukraine news for March 9: Russian attack hits a children’s hospital in besieged port city, Ukrainian officials say.

In the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol there have been claims of shelling as elsewhere residents are looking to exit through humanitarian corridors.

Systems monitoring nuclear material at the radioactive waste facilities at Chernobyl in Ukraine, which were taken over by Russian forces last month, have stopped transmitting data to the U.N. nuclear watchdog, it said on Tuesday.

Alexei - or Oleksiy - Ananenko, 62, waded through radioactive water to successfully prevent a second cataclysmic explosion at the stricken Chernobyl nuclear reactor

Russia backs U.N. atomic watchdog chief Rafael Grossi's idea of a trilateral meeting with Ukraine on ensuring the safety of nuclear facilities there during Russia's invasion but not at Chernobyl as Grossi wants, Moscow's envoy to the watchdog said.

The European Union has asked the UN nuclear watchdog to safeguard Ukraine's nuclear plants, two of which are now under Russian control, and mobilize international help in case of an emergency, according to a letter seen by Reuters. Russian forces have seized Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe' biggest, and…

Russian forces seized Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and Chernobyl on Friday and have now placed staff running the facility under their command, according to the U.N. nuclear watchdog.

Russian strike sparks global alarm it could dwarf the world’s worst nuclear disaster at Ukraine’s Chernobyl in 1986.

Russian forces have taken control of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant after shelling the Zaporizhzhia facility in the Ukrainian city of Enerhodar.