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Kyiv faced one of the heaviest bombardments since the start of the war, including an Oreshnik hypersonic missile near the capital. At least six people have been reported killed and dozens injured - while almost half of the items in the Chernobyl museum have been "lost".
Strikes across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia killed at least 16 people, authorities said, as the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster prompted fresh warnings about the risks posed by attacks near the plant during Russia's ...
On April 26, 1986, the world experienced the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history: the explosion and fire of reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in
Marking the anniversary, Volodymyr Zelenskyy warns that Russia is using "nuclear terrorism" as a weapon of war.
The two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant came decades apart. The first, on April 26, 1986, spread a cloud of deadly radiation that raised fears across Europe and some say hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl continues to haunt Ukraine, heightened by attacks hitting the country's nuclear plants.
Concerns are mounting over the potential for another catastrophic nuclear incident as Russia persists in deploying drones and missiles along corridors close to the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear facility in Ukraine. With the globe set to commemorate the 40th ...
Forty years after the accident, some residents still refuse to leave, even after Vladimir Putin’s army occupied the area in 2022. EL PAÍS visited the exclusion zone and heard the stories of those who