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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

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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

Wales Online

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

The Independent UK

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

Daily Mirror

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

The Independent UK

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

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

Bristol Post

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

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‘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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Russians soldiers in Chernobyl 'picked up radioactive material with bare hands'

Kremlin troops even dug trenches in the Red Forest - one of the most radioactive places on earth - with evidence found that suggests they camped and ate there

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Ukrainian officials say Russian troops dug trenches in Chernobyl's radioactive Red Forest

The U.N. nuclear watchdog said the radiation situation was "within the limits" for the site.

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Vladimir Putin's nuclear sabre-rattling in Ukraine has the northern hemisphere contemplating a new Cold War

As Vladimir Putin holds out the threat of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine, tensions between Russia and the West are bringing Cold War-era anxieties back to the surface.

Daily Mirror

Moment Ukrainian troops blitz Russian convoy to disrupt deliveries of fuel and supplies

The Command of the Special Operations Forces (SSO) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine showed footage of the attack which aims to stop Russian forces in their tracks

Daily Mirror

Ukraine soldier poses with flag at re-taken Chernobyl plant after Russian retreat

This morning officials confirmed that the northern Pripyat region was back under Ukrainian control, having been seized by Russia at the start of Vladimir Putin's illegal invasion

Daily Mirror

Russian soldier killed by 'radiation from damaged Chernobyl nuclear plant'

The soldier was part of a team that captured the power plant in the first days of the war before occupying the 20-mile exclusion zone around it

The Guardian - UK

UN nuclear watchdog to head mission to Chernobyl as Russians withdraw from site

Russians leaving Chernobyl have taken Ukraine soldiers with them, say officials

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