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Russian strike on Chernobyl NPP: smoldering continues, radiation background within normal limits

Kyiv • UNN

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After the Russian attack on the shelter of Chornobyl Unit 4, rescuers found several damages. All fires have been extinguished, smoldering is being extinguished, and the radiation background is normal.

Russian strike on Chernobyl NPP: smoldering continues, radiation background within normal limits

After a Russian strike on the shelter of the 4th power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, rescuers found several damages, all fires were extinguished, smoldering is being extinguished, the radiation background is normal, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported on Friday, UNN reports.

Russian strike on Chornobyl NPP: smoldering of one of the fires continues, radiation background within normal limits

- the SES reported.

Rescuers reportedly found several places of damage, all fires have been extinguished - there is no open fire. "Smoldering is currently being eliminated," the agency reiterated.

Recall

On February 14, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that a Russian attack drone with an explosive part had hit the protective shelter at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, the fire was extinguished, the radiation background did not change, but the damage to the shelter was assessed as significant. 

After the Russian strike on the shelter of the 4th power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant , the radiation background remains normal.