Ukraine rushes to ‘defend Chernobyl’
The location across the former nuclear plant remains to be probably the most radioactive place on Earth and the realm was deserted after it exploded in 1986.
However as fears mount of a Russian invasion, Ukraine has now moved troops to the desolate area on its northern border with Belarus.
In latest weeks it has been reported that Belarus, which is an ally of Russia, could also be one of many routes the Kremlin’s forces might use to invade Ukraine.
Russia and Belarus are on account of maintain joint navy workouts in February, Ukraine has now deployed hundreds of troops to the realm round Chernobyl, the New York Instances stories.
The city of Pripyat, subsequent to the place Chernobyl stood and the place its staff lived, is now a ghost city.
Chernobyl itself is partially closed with staff who preserve the massive ‘sarcophagus’ constructed over the broken reactor rotating out and in.
“We don’t know what is going to kill us first, the virus, radiation or warfare,” one employee, Oleksei Prishepa, instructed the paper.