Russia promptly accused Ukraine of planning the Chernobyl attack as a “false flag” operation. A Russian drone is reported to have struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's concrete "sarcophagus" in the early hours of Friday in an overnight attack.

Ukraine’s nuclear ghosts have been stirred up again after a drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of the plant at Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident.

The accusation of a Russian drone explosion on the roof of the fourth reactor came today from Volodymyr Zelensky amid Donald Trump ’s attempts to broker a peace agreement