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Russian drone hits nuclear-fuel storage facility near Chornobyl, Ukraine says

Russian forces deliberately struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near Ukraine’s Chornobyl power plant, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday, in an “extremely vile” attack that did not lead to a spike in radiation.The strike significantly damaged a fuel-reception building metres away from where “large amounts of nuclear material” is stored, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which said it had been briefed by Ukraine.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Kyiv’s state atomic agency Energoatom said no spent fuel had been stored in the building at the time of the attack. A resulting fire was extinguished, and no injuries were reported.Russia has not publicly commented on the alleged strike on the facility, which is located around 15 km (9 miles) from the Chornobyl plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.“An extremely critical infrastructure facility – and an extremely vile Russian strike,”