Russian strike damages IAEA building at Chernobyl-area nuclear waste facility
A Russian strike reportedly damaged an IAEA administrative building and a spent nuclear fuel facility near Chernobyl, prompting Ukraine's SBU to classify the incident as a war crime.
A Russian military strike reportedly damaged an administrative building belonging to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at Ukraine's Centralized Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage facility near Chernobyl. The incident also affected a building used for receiving and transshipping spent nuclear fuel. Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) has classified the event as a war crime. The facility, located close to the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant, holds radioactive waste. Details regarding the extent of the damage or potential radiological impact were not immediately available.
Sources: Українська правда