{"id":626033,"date":"2026-06-07T13:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T13:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626033\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T13:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T13:37:09","slug":"zelensky-set-for-london-talks-as-he-criticises-vile-chornobyl-drone-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626033\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky set for London talks as he criticises ‘vile’ Chornobyl drone strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zaporizhzhia has come under relentless Russian attacks recently, with at least two people killed there on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Russian strike on Chornobyl “partially destroyed” a spent nuclear fuel storage building, according to Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear operator, Enerhoatom.<\/p>\n

The operator said there were no injuries, and a fire in the building was put out, adding that radiation remained at a normal level.<\/p>\n

The body also criticised Moscow for what it called a deliberate threat to nuclear safety, in words echoed by Zelensky.<\/p>\n

“Russia deliberately struck this particular nuclear infrastructure facility,” Zelensky said in a post on X, describing the building as an “as extremely critical infrastructure facility” and the attack as “vile”.<\/p>\n

He went on to detail Russian overnight strikes in 13 regions, adding that Moscow had launched 88 missiles, more than 3,250 drones and 1,800 guided bombs over the past week. <\/p>\n

On Saturday, Ukraine targeted St Petersburg<\/a> and the surrounding area as the city hosted the final day of a major economic forum, in a drone attack described as “unprecedented” by Russian authorities. <\/p>\n

Days earlier, Kyiv had attacked the outskirts of the same city – some 1,000km (620 miles) from Ukraine – as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s flagship forum was getting started, sending a large plume of black smoke over the city’s skyline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the four years since Moscow’s invasion began, Ukraine has developed its defence sector, with Kyiv now able to regularly hit targets within Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zaporizhzhia has come under relentless Russian attacks recently, with at least two people killed there on Saturday. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-626033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}