{"id":126955,"date":"2025-02-19T12:15:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T09:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/126955\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"ukraine-reports-damage-to-chernobyl-reactor-shelter-after-russias-drone-attack","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/126955\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine details damage to Chernobyl reactor shelter after Russia\u2019s drone attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>February 19, <em>Pozirk<\/em>. <\/strong>A Russian drone attack on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant five days ago damaged the confinement shelter\u2019s external cladding, Ukraine\u2019s State Agency on Exclusion Zone Management reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emergency workers continue to extinguish smoldering areas of insulation material that required a partial dismantling of structures, it noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agency also reported damages to the shelter&#8217;s internal cladding and main crane system equipment, disrupting the safe operation of the shelter, yet assured that radiation levels in Chernobyl have not risen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded in the early hours of April 26, 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the plant is located in Ukraine, about 70 percent of the radioactive fallout landed in Belarus, heavily contaminating one-fourth of the country, one-fifth of its agricultural land and affecting at least 7 million people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/sarkofag-Zelenski-20250214-354x234.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/sarkofag-Zelenski-20250214-354x234.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/sarkofag-Zelenski-20250214-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/sarkofag-Zelenski-20250214.jpg 547w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Security<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Security<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Ukrainian emergency workers tackle drone strike aftermath at Chernobyl nuclear plant<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">February 15, Pozirk. Ukrainian emergency workers are putting out fire at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant for the second day after Russia reportedly attacked it with a drone in the early hours of February 14. The drone hit the station\u2019s &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/126501\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 19, Pozirk. A Russian drone attack on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant five days ago damaged the confinement shelter\u2019s external cladding, Ukraine\u2019s State Agency on Exclusion Zone Management reports. Emergency workers continue to extinguish smoldering areas of insulation material that required a partial dismantling of structures, it noted. 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