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Reports indicate that Russian forces have entered the area around Chernobyl across the border with Belarus. Today it includes ongoing safety operations, forests that have grown lush again, a few small settlements where villagers have refused to live and the town of Pripyat, abandoned by the plant’s employees and their families in the days after the explosion. The tightly protected Chernobyl Exclusion Zone sweeps in an almost 20-mile radius around the reactor. (Igor Kostin/Laski Diffusion/Getty Images)

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant in May 1986, a few weeks after the disaster. Ukraine was then part of the Soviet Union. When the reactor melted down in April 1986 during a test gone awry, a radioactive cloud covered much of the continent. The condition of the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant, confinement, and nuclear waste storage facilities is unknown,” an official at the plant said on Thursday afternoon, several hours after Russian forces moved across the Belarusian border, toward the plant.Įarlier in the day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Twitter that Chernobyl was under threat: “Our defenders are giving their lives so that the tragedy of 1986 will not be repeated.” He described the move as “a declaration of war against the whole of Europe.” “After a fierce battle, Ukrainian control over the Chernobyl site was lost.

WASHINGTON - According to Ukrainian authorities, Russian forces have seized the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in northern Ukraine, where the world’s worst nuclear disaster took place in 1986 - and where vast reserves of dangerous nuclear waste remain entombed.

Getting nuked vs having a reactor meltdown meme