Zelensky heads to London to push Western backing after Chornobyl strike,

President Volodymyr Zelensky travels to London for talks with Keir Starmer, Macron and Merz on strengthening Western support for Ukraine, as Kyiv denounces a Russian drone strike on a spent-fuel storage facility near Chernobyl as a ‘vile’ attack with a fire extinguished and radiation stable; separate strikes hit Zaporizhzhia while Moscow presses its assault and Putin rejects direct negotiations, framing the talks within a broader peace process.