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Unseen horrors of Chernobyl as babies born with fused legs and covered in spots revealed

On April 26, 1986 scientists lost control of the four reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant - leading to an explosion that shot masses of radiation into the atmosphere

Daily Mirror

Man who fell in love at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant proposes outside reactor four

James Galbraith, 29, met the love of his wife, Olya, 26, at the site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and there was instant chemistry, so he popped the question outside reactor four

Daily Mirror

Inside Chernobyl nuclear plant devastated by Russian troops as $135m of equipment destroyed

Chernobyl is the site of one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters

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Russian forces at Chernobyl killed 9, kidnapped 5 and ransacked power plant

Russian soldiers at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant at Pripyat also demolished almost every piece of firefighting equipment at the site and destroyed 698 invaluable computers

Daily Mirror

Inside Chernobyl nuclear plant after Russian forces leave scene of destruction

Haunting new images show Chernobyl obliterated with graffitied walls, live electrical wiring uncovered, broken windows and rubbish strewn everywhere

Daily Mirror

Should the war in Ukraine spur a nuclear security rethink?

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, nuclear facilities have been caught up in the midst of conventional warfare for the first time in history. That nightmare scenario is one that few of the industry’s players had anticipated. In Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia, Russian forces represent a lingering threat to the most basic…

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New BBC drama Better filmed and set entirely in Leeds

The team behind new BBC drama Better have previously worked on Spooks, Chernobyl and Humans

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Russians face slow death from radiation poisoning after digging trenches at Chernobyl

Russian President Vladimir Putin has put his own troops to work by forcing them to dig trenches at the deadly contaminated Chernobyl site with some already developing symptoms

Daily Mirror

The Loop: The ABC enters the Chernobyl meltdown zone, Eurovision heats up, and the US surpasses 1 million COVID-19 deaths

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Vladimir Putin's troops have left Chernobyl after an erratic, 'illogical' occupation of the nuclear disaster site

When Russian troops took Chernobyl, they drove their tanks through the highly contaminated Red Forest and dug trenches in the toxic earth. They're mistakes that could catch up with them.

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Despite Putin, Ukraine’s traditions live on – as does the threat from Chernobyl

While we tend our graves, vanquished Russian troops are heading through Belarus in a cloud of radioactivity after literally digging up the past, says novelist Andrey Kurkov

The Guardian - UK

Scariest things on Google Earth - from bloody murder to Chernobyl human remains

WARNING, GRAPHIC IMAGES: The short TikTok video was viewed over 11m times as the "scary" clips appeared to show "human remains" in Chernobyl and a creepy masked figure sat in a parked car

Daily Mirror

Ukraine war ‘heartbreaking’, says British woman helping Chernobyl children

Jo Cullimore has spent a decade helping children from the town of Borodyanka in northern Ukraine.

The Independent UK

Ukraine says Russian forces 'stole' safety equipment from Chernobyl, 'special work' needed to repair reactor site

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has called Russia's temporary occupation of the Chernobyl nuclear power station "very, very dangerous" and offered to help Ukraine repair damage caused to the stricken plant.

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Zelensky: Russia risks worse disaster than Chernobyl - full speech in English

He spoke on the 36th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster

The Independent UK

Nuclear chief: Russia's Chernobyl seizure risked accident

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says Russian troops risked causing an accident with their “very, very dangerous” seizure of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine

Daily Mirror

Chernobyl radiation levels 'normal' after 'very, very dangerous' Russian actions

International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Grossi has warned that radiation levels at the Chernobyl power plant are rising due to weeks of fighting

Daily Mirror

Pontins guest says they'd 'rather visit Chernobyl' after walking into bathroom

Customers have been taking to TripAdvisor to warn other potential guests about the allegedly 'filthy' state of Pontins Brean Sands in Somerset, which has attracted 23 one-star reviews this year alone

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The Independent UK

Russia’s Chernobyl seizure seen as nuclear risk ‘nightmare’

When Russian forces invaded and occupied the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, they dug trenches in one of the world’s most radioactive places

Bristol Post

Pontins Brean Sands slammed as holiday left children 'crying' because it was so cold

One reviewer said: 'I’d rather visit Chernobyl'

Irish Mirror

World's leading authority on Chernobyl disaster impact escapes war in Ukraine to Ireland - and wants to create research centre in Mayo

Professor Yury Bandazhevsky will ask the world to support the project and enable him continue his ground-breaking work on the impact of radiation poisoning

The Guardian - UK

‘They were hooligans’: Chernobyl locals reeling after Russian invasion

As troops leave exclusion zone and surrounding villages, Ukraine’s nuclear agency faces huge clean-up task

Evening Standard

Russian troops laid landmines at Chernobyl, Ukraine official says

Russian troops laid landmines at the Chernobyl power plant as they retreated, a Ukrainian official has said.

Daily Mirror

Russian troops who stole radioactive material from Chernobyl could be dead in a year

Ukraine's State Agency for Managing the Exclusion Zone said 133 substances were stolen after invaders raided two labs during the occupation of the defunct nuclear power plant

Daily Mirror

Inside Chernobyl nuclear power plant left ransacked amid Russian looting claims

Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyy claimed Kremlin soldiers had acted "like dogs" as they scoured through Ukrainian clothes and belongings for money, valuables, and laptops

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