The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has said that work to tackle the smouldering fires in the insulation layers of Chernobyl's giant shelter has been completed, three weeks after it was struck by a ...

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When the war began on 24 February 2022, explosions erupted near the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine’s northern Kyiv region. Earlier that day Russian troops had entered from the Belarus border ...

Group tries to steal Banksy mural in Ukraine, arrested In 2022, a group of people tried to take a mural by graffiti artist Banksy in Ukraine on Friday by cutting it off a battle-scarred wall ...

On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear disaster unfolded at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what is now northern Ukraine. After one of the plant’s reactors exploded during a test ...

Chernobyl nuclear power plant lies about 130 kilometres north of Ukraine's capital Kyiv, and about 20 kilometres south of Belarus. A 30-kilometre exclusion zone remains around the plant, although some ...

Since the Islamic Republic has been sustaining Moscow’s lethal drone supply since the start of the Ukraine invasion three years ago, the presence of a Shahed at the site of the Chernobyl strike ...

Belgrade (AFP) – In a city famed for graffiti and murals, rival exhibitions in Belgrade showcasing the impact of British street artist Banksy have led to a colourful debate over the ...

On Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine accused President Vladimir V. Putin of trying to surround Kyiv’s forces in the Kursk region to improve Russia’s position in cease-fire ...