In a press briefing, the senior official denied Kiev’s accusations against Moscow regarding the said attack and added that there was no question of strikes on nuclear power infrastructures and any contrary claims were untrue.

The spokesman stated that Russian military forces are not involved in this, and assumed that “this is another provocation, a manipulation.” “It is something that Kiev’s regime sometimes does not despise, something it loves.”

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) informed a few hours earlier that early on Friday, its team stationed at Chernobyl heard an explosion coming from the new sarcophagus, which protects the remains of unit four, which was destroyed in 1986 by the largest nuclear disaster in history.

According to the IAEA, which posted several pictures of the site on its social media pages, the explosion resulted in a fire.

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