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<!-- -->Some 25,000 people live in the town 160 kilometres (99 miles) north of the capital (File)Kyiv: The Russian army took control of the town where staff working at the Chernobyl nuclear site live and captured the mayor, sparking…

Russian forces have taken control of a town where workers at the defunct Chornobyl nuclear plant live, the governor of Kyiv region said on Saturday, and fighting was reported in the streets of the besieged southern port of Mariupol.…

Ukraine said on Friday its troops had repulsed a first attack by Russian troops closing in on the town of Slavutych, where workers at the defunct Chornobyl nuclear plant live. Slavutych sits just outside the so-called exclusion zone…

As war rages on in Ukraine, the specter of another nuclear disaster only grows. It’s been 36 years since the world witnessed in horror the catastrophic consequences of the explosion at Chornobyl, the full scale of those implications…

LVIV: Ukrainian state nuclear company Energoatom warned on Monday (Mar 21) that radiation levels around the occupied Chernobyl nuclear plant risked rising because its radiation monitoring system and forest firefighting service were not…

Electricity supply has been restored at Ukraine’s retired Chernobyl nuclear power plant that was seized by Russian forces in the first days of the invasion, energy officials in Kyiv said Sunday.“Today, thanks to the incredible efforts of…

<!-- -->Russia-Ukraine War: Ukraine said on Wednesday power had been cut to the Chernobyl plant.Kyiv: Electricity supply has been restored at Ukraine's retired Chernobyl nuclear power plant that was seized by Russian forces in the…

When fighting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine resulted in power cuts to the critical cooling system at the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant, some feared that spent nuclear fuel would overheat. But nuclear experts say there’s no…

Ukrainian director Stanislav Kapralov has moved to western Ukraine from Kiev after Russia invaded his country. Unwilling to leave his homeland in tough times, he feels the lines of conflict are scripting a new story for the country and its…

Power has been cut to the Chernobyl nuclear plant, Ukraine said Wednesday, but the UN's atomic watchdog said there was "no critical impact on safety". The news from the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster came as the International…