A large forest fire burned through the Chernobyl exclusion zone on Friday following a drone crash near the disaster-tainted ...

Ukrainian firefighters rescued an elk after a wildfire rapidly spread within the Chernobyl exclusion zone, footage released ...

A forest fire spreading through the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone on Friday, May 8, was ignited by a Russian drone that crashed in the area a day earlier, Ukrainian authorities reported. The fire grew ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

People streamed into the central square of Slavutych in the early hours of Sunday, placing candles on a large radiation ...

Radiation levels at the site were within "normal limits," authorities reported, adding that firefighters were working to ...

Authorities reported that radiation levels at the site were within 'normal limits' and added that firefighters were working ...

The city of Slavutych stages a vigil each year despite current wartime curfews and official warnings against large gatherings ...

People lay flowers on Sunday during a memorial service dedicated to workers who died in the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it ...

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster changed the world forever. It was the single most devastating nuclear disaster in humanity’s history. The result of reactor number 4 overheating at the facility created ...