LONDON - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy arrived in Britain on June 7 for defence talks with leaders of the UK, France and Germany after new Russian strikes killed five people and hit a nuclear site in Ukraine.

Zelensky said in an online post he was in London and would meet British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

Kyiv is asking its Western allies for more ammunition deliveries for its anti-air defences as Ukraine endures daily Russian strikes. Zelensky is also seeking ways for the allies to further pressure Russia to end the fighting.

On June 7, Russia fired waves of drones and other munitions at Ukraine, with one of the attacks damaging a nuclear storage facility in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Ukrainian officials said.

Radiation levels at the facility remained within normal limits following the attack, although its fuel reception building was “partially destroyed”, according to Ukraine’s nuclear energy operator, Energoatom.

Moscow and Kyiv have intensified drone strikes on each other in recent months, as US-led diplomatic efforts to end the war – now in its fifth year – remain stalled and sidetracked by the conflict in the Middle East.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has rejected direct peace talks proposed by his Ukrainian counterpart.