Chornobyl NPP
The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant is a former nuclear power station in Ukraine, located in the exclusion zone near the city of Pripyat in Kyiv Oblast. It became notorious in 1986 when a reactor explosion at unit 4 caused one of the worst civil nuclear disasters in history. The remaining reactors continued operating for years afterward before the plant was fully shut down in 2000. The site is now the focus of decommissioning work and the safe containment of the damaged reactor under a new shelter structure.
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Ukraine's government submits 2027 draft budget to parliament with two-thirds of spending on defense
Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers approved the draft State Budget for 2027 on the evening of September 15 and registered it in the Verkhovna Rada as bill No. 16000. The draft projects 5.65 trillion hryvnias in revenues and 7.27 trillion hryvnias in expenditures, with 66.8% of spending allocated to security and defense, and an international assistance requirement of $52.6 billion.