A Russian drone strike on Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear reactor has damaged its main shield, according to a UN watchdog.

The massive structure, which was built over the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, has lost its ‘primary safety functions, including the confinement capability’, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors found.

Luckily, a report found the €1.5bn shield’s main structures and monitoring systems didn’t sustain irreversible damage in the February 14 strike.

Radiation levels have not increased outside the site of the world’s worst-ever nuclear disaster but the shield does need major repairs.

The night attack saw a Russian strike drone with a high-explosive warhead hit the shelter over the destroyed Unit 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

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