Ukraine’s nuclear ghosts have been stirred up again after a drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of the plant at Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident. The strike on Friday did not breach the plant’s inner containment shell and radiation levels did not increase.

The radiation level after the explosion near the inactive nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, remains normal, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported on Friday. The head of the agency emphasized that this incident "confirms persistent threats to nuclear safety.

For the first time, a Russian projectile directly struck a structure containing a nuclear reactor. Moscow has increasingly been targeting Ukraine's nuclear infrastructure.