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During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was captured [3] on 24 February 2022, the first day of the invasion, by the Russian Armed Forces, [4] who entered Ukrainian territory from neighbouring Belarus and seized the entire area of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant by the end of that day.
Few places conjure more foreboding than Chernobyl, the site of the deadly 1986 nuclear disaster.
The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2015) is a documentary about three women who decided to return to the exclusion zone after the disaster. In the documentary, the Babushkas show the polluted water, their food from radioactive gardens, and explain how they manage to survive in this exclusion zone despite the radioactive levels.
According to Ukrainian authorities, Russian forces have moved into the area surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine, where the world’s worst nuclear disaster took place in 1986 ...
It was among the most worrying developments on an already shocking day, as Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday: warfare at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, where radioactivity is still leaking from ...
According to Chernobyl disaster liquidators, the radiation levels there are "well below the level across the zone", a fact that president of the Ukrainian Chernobyl Union Yury Andreyev considers miraculous. [35] The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has been accessible to interested parties such as scientists and journalists since the zone was created.
At 4 a.m., Moscow ordered feeding of water to the reactor. As Director of the Chernobyl site, Bryukhanov was sentenced to ten years imprisonment but only served five years of the sentence. The first director of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Viktor Petrovich Bryukhanov, died on October 13, 2021, at the age of 84.
The possibility of Russia using tactical nuclear weapons, and the risk of broader nuclear escalation, has been widely discussed by commentators and in the media. [1] By 2024, many of the Russian government's "red lines" had been crossed without nuclear weapons being used in response. [2]