Russia denies launching drone strike on Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine

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Russia denies launching drone strike on Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine
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No radiation leak as Kyiv says attack shows Kremlin has no desire for peace

Ukraine said the strike, which left only minor damage and did not raise radiation levels at the decommissioned plant, showed that Russia n president; Moscow, meanwhile, accused Kyiv of carrying out the drone attack to alarm the international community and portray the Kremlin and its military as reckless threats to world security.

Ukraine released photographs of parts of the drone that hit the radiation containment shelter around Chernobyl’s destroyed nuclear reactor and said they belonged to a Russian-made version of the explosive “Shahed” drones supplied to Moscow by Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Mr Zelenskiy did not want to visit the Munich conference “empty-handed”.

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