Ukrainians shocked by 'crazy' scene at Chernobyl after Russian pullout reveals radioactive contamination

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Russian soldiers held Chernobyl for a month and are thought to have been operating in contaminated areas most of the time. 9News

There's no visible presence of the source of the radioactive material in the room, but Ukrainian officials say it's coming from small particles and dust that the soldiers brought into the building.

"They went everywhere, and they also took some radioactive dust on them [when they left]," Ugolkov adds.. The area around Chernobyl, namely the Red Forest, is still the most nuclear contaminated area on the planet, with most of the radioactive particles present on the soil.Ukrainian National Guardsmen were detained by Russian soldiers in Chernobyl's own underground nuclear bunker.

"But we can see they went in there, the soldiers who went there, came back here and the level of radiation increased." "[Our staff] were here from the first day of occupation, and they only had the possibility of being replaced a month later," he said. This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows an overview of Chernobyl nuclear facilities, Ukraine, during the Russian invasion, Thursday, March 10, 2022.

The minister says he believes the men have been taken to Russia, via Belarus, as prisoners of war, but doesn't know for certain.A Soviet-era top secret object Duga, an over-the-horizon radar system once used as part of the Soviet missile defense early-warning radar network, seen behind a radioactivity sign in Chernobyl, Ukraine, on Nov. 22, 2018.

In addition to the decommissioned reactors at Chernobyl, Ukraine has four active nuclear power plants, including the largest in Europe in Zaporizhzhia. The Russian military occupied that facility in early March, when it took control of the area, shelling some of the site's buildings in the process.

 

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