A pair of Russian submarines have been left to 'lie disintegrating on the seafloor' after decades, as perparations to ...

The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic wasteland. After the infamous 1986 meltdown of a Soviet nuclear reactor, around 1,000 square miles in northern ...

These canines “survived for a reason,” an expert told us. But what exactly is causing these rapid genetic transformations?

The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has said that work to tackle the smouldering fires in the insulation layers of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

President Zelenskyy says the strike was a "very clear greeting from Putin and Russian Federation" - a claim Moscow denies.

If we want to achieve stable peace, we cannot turn a blind eye to Russia’s constant crossing of red lines, especially regarding nuclear energy. I hope that someday there will be justice for those who ...

Russia says its forces captured the village of Berezivka in their latest breakthrough in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, where Ukrainian defenses are creaking.

When the war began on 24 February 2022, explosions erupted near the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine’s northern Kyiv region. Earlier that day Russian troops had entered from the Belarus border ...

And in February 2022, there were soldiers. Chernobyl, sandwiched between Kyiv and the Belarusian border, was directly in the path of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. For a little more than a month ...