Ukrainians gathered to honour those who died from the accident, as well as the hundreds of thousands who cleaned up after the disaster, exposing themselves to high levels of radiation.View on euronews

Russia is still attacking Ukrainian territory.

In the latest nightly attack, five people were killed across Ukraine after Moscow launched more than 100 drones.

Russia must cease its "nuclear terrorism," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday as he marked 40 years since the nuclear disaster at the Soviet-era Chernobyl power plant in northern

Forty years after the accident, some residents still refuse to leave, even after Vladimir Putin’s army occupied the area in 2022. EL PAÍS visited the exclusion zone and heard the stories of those who

Strikes across Ukraine, Russian-occupied areas, and Russia have left at least 16 people dead as the world marked 40 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The attacks come as Ukraine’s leadership warned that continued strikes near nuclear sites pose serious risks amid the ongoing war.

What once seemed unthinkable — strikes on nuclear facilities and other hazardous sites — has now become reality,” said Oleh Solonenko, head of a radiation safety shift at Chernobyl, which Ukrainians transliterate as Chornobyl.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of "nuclear terrorism" as he marked the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. The Ukrainian leader took to social media on Sunday to commemorate the lives lost in the aftermath of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl on April 26, 1986.

Authorities in Ukraine say a Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s southern city of Odesa has wounded 14 people including two children. Officials said Monday that the drones hit