A structure designed to prevent radioactive leakage at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine is no longer operational after Russian drones targeted it earlier this year The Chernobyl disaster happened in the 1980s (Image: Getty)

A structure built to stop radioactive leakage at the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine has been deemed non-operational after being targeted by Russian drones. The findings come from the UN's nuclear watchdog .

The confinement facility “lost its primary safety functions” after the strike in February, Politico reports . It was built as part of a €1.5 billion Europe-led initiative in 2019 to replace the reactor destroyed in the plant's 1986 meltdown, in which over 30 people died.

A new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency

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