Russian troops have captured Chernobyl's former nuclear power after heavy fighting near the Chernobyl exclusion zone, according to an advisor to the Ukrainian presidential office.
As one of the most radioactive places in the world, large parts of the Chernobyl exclusion zone have been closed off since the disastrous meltdown of Ukraine'sIn that year, two gigantic explosions at the plant blew off the reactor's 2,000-ton lid, covering the surrounding 1,000-square-mile area with nuclear fallout. The area was later deemed uninhabitable by humans for the next 24,000 years."Russian occupation forces are trying to seize the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
"The National Guardsmen, who guard the collectors of unsafe nuclear radioactive waste, are fighting hard," Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor and former deputy minister at the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs,"If as a result of the occupiers' artillery strikes the nuclear waste storage facility is destroyed, the radioactive dust may cover the territories of Ukraine, Belarus and the EU [European Union]...
About 7,500 more Russian soldiers were stationed in the exclusion zone between December 2021 and February 2022; the site lies close to Ukraine's northern border with Russia's ally Belarus and sits on the most direct route between it and Kyiv.on Tuesday appeared to show that a pontoon bridge had been erected at the Pripyat river just 14 miles north of the Chernobyl plant at the Ukranian-Belorussian border, possibly to facilitate the transport of Russian troops into the zone.
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