Russian troops are rolling through a protective zone surrounding the remnants of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a move that signals the likelihood of trying to …
Russian troops are rolling through a protective zone surrounding the remnants of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a move that signals the likelihood of trying to assault Kyiv and that risks decades of united efforts to contain one of history’s worst nuclear disasters. “Russian occupation forces are trying to seize the #Chornobyl_NPP,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Twitter early Thursday. “Our defenders are giving their lives so that the tragedy of 1986 will not be repeated.” Reports of the fighting there could not be independently confirmed. A roughly 20-mile exclusion zone encircles the 1986 nuclear disaster. Parts of the zone are not expected to support human life for another hundred years. But weather conditions at the time of the incident mean some areas contain far more radiation than others. UC San Francisco’s Lydia Zablotska, a radiation expert who grew up in Ukraine, told Insider before Thursday’s reported attacks that the zone remains “the most contaminated place” on earth.
