Ukrainian officials on Sunday said a Russian drone struck a nuclear fuel facility near Chernobyl, the site of the 20th century’s biggest nuclear disaster.

The facility was hit by a Shahed drone, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who called the strike “extremely vile.” He said Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Energy and other government services were working with their partners to understand what happened.

Russia has not publicly acknowledged the strike.

“As of now, there are no readings exceeding normal background radiation levels,” Zelensky wrote on the social platform X. “But there is certainly an increase in Russia’s brazenness, which long ago went off the charts. Ukrainian first responders extinguished the fire at this facility after the strike. And real new steps by the world are needed so that the Russians feel that this terrorist war of theirs is a blow to Russia itself.”

Energoatom, Ukraine’s state nuclear company, told the Financial Times that the drone hit struck the reception area of a heavily secured facility. The subsequent fire was extinguished, with no injuries reported. Energoatom told the outlet that radiation levels were “within normal limits.”

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