10: 19 • Updated 10:20
The international atomic energy organization IAEA announces that last night just before two o’clock in Chernobyl, an explosion was heard from a protected area.
Within this area, there are remnants of a nuclear reactor destroyed in the 1986 nuclear accident.
According to IAEA, the explosion followed a fire. However, radiation levels are currently normal both inside and outside the protective area, the organization says.
It is not known that anyone is injured at night events.
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyin According to the Chernobyl’s protective cover, a “Russian droon” hit.
Source: Reuters