5 facts you need to know about nuclear threats in Ukraine 

On 24 February 2022, Russian military forces seized the Chornobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) and the whole 30-km exclusion zone contaminated after Chernobyl accident in 1986. While the plant has not been operated already for many years, there are more than 22 000 highly-radioactive spent fuel assemblies in storages on the ChNPP territory.