The Latest Breaking News from Chernobyl

As troops leave exclusion zone and surrounding villages, Ukraine’s nuclear agency faces huge clean-up task

Russian troops laid landmines at the Chernobyl power plant as they retreated, a Ukrainian official has said.

As Vladimir Putin holds out the threat of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine, tensions between Russia and the West are bringing Cold War-era anxieties back to the surface.

The Command of the Special Operations Forces (SSO) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine showed footage of the attack which aims to stop Russian forces in their tracks

This morning officials confirmed that the northern Pripyat region was back under Ukrainian control, having been seized by Russia at the start of Vladimir Putin's illegal invasion

The soldier was part of a team that captured the power plant in the first days of the war before occupying the 20-mile exclusion zone around it

Russians leaving Chernobyl have taken Ukraine soldiers with them, say officials

U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi will lead a mission to Chernobyl as soon as possible, he said on Friday, after Ukraine said Russian troops had left the radioactive waste facilities there though some remained nearby.

Russian troops left the Chernobyl nuclear site as Ukraine braces for attacks elsewhere in the country. The governor of the Russian border region of Belgorod, meanwhile, accused Ukraine of flying helicopter gunships into Russian territory early Friday morning and striking an oil depot.