The Latest Breaking News from Chernobyl

The Command of the Special Operations Forces (SSO) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine showed footage of the attack which aims to stop Russian forces in their tracks

This morning officials confirmed that the northern Pripyat region was back under Ukrainian control, having been seized by Russia at the start of Vladimir Putin's illegal invasion

The soldier was part of a team that captured the power plant in the first days of the war before occupying the 20-mile exclusion zone around it

Russians leaving Chernobyl have taken Ukraine soldiers with them, say officials

U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi will lead a mission to Chernobyl as soon as possible, he said on Friday, after Ukraine said Russian troops had left the radioactive waste facilities there though some remained nearby.

Russian troops left the Chernobyl nuclear site as Ukraine braces for attacks elsewhere in the country. The governor of the Russian border region of Belgorod, meanwhile, accused Ukraine of flying helicopter gunships into Russian territory early Friday morning and striking an oil depot.

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Some Russian troops were still in the "exclusion zone" around the Chernobyl nuclear power station on Friday morning, a day after ending their occupation of the plant itself, a Ukrainian official said.

Russian forces occupying the Chernobyl nuclear power plant have left the site after receiving high doses of radiation from digging into contaminated soil, Ukrainian officials have claimed.

Russian troops have left the heavily contaminated Chernobyl nuclear site

Kyiv said Moscow’s claim that it was behind the oil depot attack ‘does not correspond to reality’