A Russian drone strike last year damaged the New Safe Confinement (NSC or New Shelter), which was put in place in 2016 to confine the remains of the number 4 reactor unit.
The unit exploded on April 26, 1986, leading to deaths and a major release of radioactive material into the environment across Eastern Europe.
The world’s worst nuclear disaster led to the foundation of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, which covers roughly 1,000 square miles in total, split between Ukraine and Belarus.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused the Russians of deliberately trying to create a nuclear incident, as they would have been fully aware that the strikes would endanger the NSC’s power supply.
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