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The Ukrainian president held talks with the UK, French and German leaders hours after a Russian strike on a spent nuclear fuel storage centre nine miles from the Chornobyl plant.
abcnews.go.comVolodymyr Zelenskyy met Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz at Downing Street on Sunday night. The leaders discussed ongoing support for Ukraine and cooperation on air defence. Hours before the meeting, a Russian drone struck and damaged a storage centre for spent nuclear fuel nine miles from the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.
Zelenskyy called the strike “extremely vile” and stated that the drone used was an Iranian-designed Shahed attack drone. Zelenskyy said the attack did not lead to a spike in radiation and that a fire in the building was quickly extinguished. The International Atomic Energy Agency said large amounts of nuclear fuel were stored a few metres away from the damaged site.
The UK and France are leading a “coalition of the willing” initiative to provide security guarantees for Ukraine as part of a peace process. Before the meeting, Zelenskyy vowed that Ukraine would not “silently die” and told Sky News: “We will respond. ” He thanked the UK and other allies for helping strengthen the protection of life and increase pressure on Russia.
The meeting followed a series of Ukrainian strikes on targets inside Russia. Long-range Ukrainian drones hit an oil terminal and a nearby naval port in St Petersburg last week, with the attacks beginning hours before the city’s international economic forum. On Saturday, Ukraine struck St Petersburg again, reportedly targeting an ammunition dump and oil terminal in nearby Kronstadt.
Alexander Beglov said three people sustained minor injuries and told residents to stay indoors. Ukraine’s special operations forces struck fuel storage facilities in the towns of Lenine and Fedosia in occupied Crimea. Ukrainian drones also knocked out a bridge connecting occupied Crimea with the Chonhar crossing point, which connects to a key supply road shut last week after repeated strikes on lorries and tankers.
The attacks have led to severe fuel shortages in Crimea, with the crisis beginning to spread to southern Russia. Vladimir Putin rejected Zelenskyy’s proposal of face-to-face talks. Speaking at the economic forum on Friday, Putin said his war goals were unchanged and there was “no point” in holding peace negotiations.
Zelenskyy described Putin’s response as “weak” and said Ukraine’s deep strikes would continue. Zelenskyy wrote an open letter to Putin, the first he has publicly written directly to the Russian leader since the full-scale invasion in 2022. In the letter, Zelenskyy wrote: “The world has not grown tired of Ukraine, as you long hoped it would.
Four people were killed by Russian aerial bombs. Two people waiting at a bus stop in the village of Balabyne in the southern Zaporizhzhia region died, along with a 56-year-old minibus driver whose vehicle was targeted nearby. A 59-year-old man was killed in the neighbouring Dnipropetrovsk oblast.
Zelenskyy will meet King Charles on Monday.
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