Russian strikes kill five, damage nuclear storage facility: Kyiv

Russia fired waves of drones and other munitions at Ukraine on Sunday, killing at least five people and damaging a nuclear storage facility in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Ukrainian officials said.

Radiation levels at the facility remained within normal limits following the attack, although its fuel reception building was "partially destroyed", according to Ukraine's Energoatom nuclear energy operator.

Moscow and Kyiv have intensified drone strikes on each other in recent months, as US-led diplomatic efforts to end the war -- now in its fifth year -- remain stalled and sidetracked by the conflict in the Middle East.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Britain on Sunday for talks with his allies on how to pressure Russia to end the fighting, after Russia's Vladimir Putin rejected direct peace talks with his Ukrainian counterpart.

"A 'shahed' hit one of the buildings of the Centralized Spent Fuel Storage Facility," Zelensky said in a post on X, referring to the Iranian-designed "Shahed" drones that Russia fires at Ukraine on a nightly basis.

The IAEA said it was dispatching a team to inspect the damage, calling the incident "deeply concerning".

A Russian bombardment of a public transport stop in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region left at least two people dead, while a nearby drone strike killed a 56-year-old minibus driver, authorities said.

Separate Russian attacks on the central Dnipropetrovsk region killed two men, governor Oleksandr Ganzha posted on Telegram.