As Ukraine accuses Russia of flying a drone with a high explosive warhead into the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Zelensky has accused Putin of invoking "a terrorist threat to the entire world". The blitzed reactor is covered to prevent radiation after the 1986 explosion which sent pollution spewing across Europe.

The structure that covers the old sarcophagus which confines the remains of the damaged fourth reactor of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, bears an impact of what the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says was a Russian drone strike,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that a Russian drone had caused significant damage to the radiation containment shelter at the disused Chornobyl nuclear power plant overnight.