President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that Russia deliberately struck a ‌nuclear-fuel ​storage facility near Ukraine's Chornobyl ⁠power plant in ​an "extremely vile" attack.

"Today, the Russians ⁠again struck the special territory around ‌the Chornobyl ​Nuclear Power Plant. ‌A 'shahed' hit ‌one of the buildings of the Centralized ⁠Spent Fuel ‌Storage ⁠Facility," he wrote ⁠on ⁠X, referring to a ‌common Russian attack drone.

"An extremely critical ‌infrastructure ​facility – ‌and an extremely vile Russian strike." 

A Russian ‌drone struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near Ukraine's disused Chornobyl power plant, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday, adding that radiation levels at the ‌site remained stable.

In separate statements, ​Kyiv's General Staff and the state atomic agency said a container-receiving building ⁠had been partially destroyed, but that no spent ​fuel had been stored there at the time ⁠of the attack.

A resulting fire was extinguished, and no injuries were reported.

Russia has not publicly commented on ‌the alleged attack on the facility, ​which is located ‌around 15 km (9 miles) from the Chornobyl plant, the site ‌of the world's worst nuclear disaster.

"This is not the first time Russian forces are ⁠putting Ukrainian nuclear facilities ‌at risk," ⁠Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote on X.

"Russia's nuclear blackmail ⁠and ⁠threats to nuclear safety are systemic, deliberate, and unacceptable."

In February ‌2025, a Russian attack drone damaged a containment arch over the Chornobyl reactor that was destroyed in ‌the ​April 1986 explosion ‌and meltdown. Russia denied responsibility.

Kyiv and Moscow have also traded accusations of attacking the ​Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southeastern Ukraine, Europe's largest.