Due to the fire, which continues on the territory of the Chernobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve, the ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Four decades on, Chernobyl remains too dangerous ...

Concerns are mounting over the potential for another catastrophic nuclear incident as Russia persists in deploying drones and missiles along corridors close to the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear facility ...

Since Russia began occupying the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, there have been several near-miss nuclear safety situations.

Strikes across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia killed at least 16 people, authorities said, as the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster prompted fresh warnings about the ...

Russia’s invasion deepens the saga of Ukraine’s Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. A woman who fled war and ended up there says, “We overcame radiation. We will overcome Russia, too.” ...

Ukraine marked the 40th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in April 2026 as former clean-up workers returned to the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history.

KYIV, Ukraine — Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, ...

In the isolated forests encroaching on the ruins of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, too dangerous for humans to inhabit, wolves are mysteriously thriving.

Forty years ago, in April 1986, there was an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was the worst nuclear accident in history. Then the plant was in the USSR, it is part of northern ...