European Union leaders have dashed Kiev’s demand for an accelerated membership of the bloc over the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

On February 24, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine saying the move was provoked by NATO's eastward expansion and refusal to give security guarantees to Russia.

With the increasingly decrepit US nuclear infrastructure and lack of suitable oversight, a serious nuclear weapons incident could be just around the corner and the Pentagon even has a phrase for it: Broken Arrow.

New fires broke out in the area around the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant on Thursday.

A huge blaze that tore through forests around the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant is put out, Ukrainian officials say.

Firefighters were battling the bushfires in the Chernobyl exclusion zone on Saturday (April 11) while Ukrainian Ministry of Emergencies reported dozens of hectares had burnt.

A Russian TV company is putting the finishing touches on a Chernobyl series that implicates the United States as playing a role in the nuclear disaster.