The Russians are moving to Belarus to redeploy forces, according to a NYT report.
After a month of intense fighting near Kyiv, some Russian troops are withdrawing through the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone to Belarus to regroup, the Ukrainian military said Sunday.
This suggests, according to the NYT, that the Russian army is using the site of the reactor, which is not operating for logistical support.
Prolonged radiation from the 1986 nuclear disaster poses only moderate health risks, although it may increase for Russian troops in the area, as dozens of small fires in the surrounding forest have spread smoke.
The Ukrainian military statement came as another sign that the Russian offensive in Kyiv has been largely halted.
NYT notes that there was no way to independently confirm the Ukrainian announcement, but it was consistent with what Western intelligence services said about the fighting in northwestern Kiev.
At the same time, according to the presidential symbol of Ukraine, Oleksiy Arestovich, the Russian army is trying to encircle the forces of the Ukrainian army in eastern Ukraine, said the Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksy Arestovich.
He added that Ukrainian forces were launching a small-scale counterattack.
At the same time, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights announced today that 1,119 civilians have been killed in Ukraine so far and 1,790 have been injured since Russia invaded the country.
About 15 girls and 32 boys, as well as 52 unidentified children, are among the dead, the United Nations said in a statement on the period from the start of the war on February 24 to midnight on March 26. .
The actual number of casualties is expected to be significantly higher, according to the United Nations, as information from some areas where heavy fighting is taking place is arriving too late and some information is still in need of confirmation.
This mainly concerns the besieged Mariupol in southern Ukraine, as well as Volnovakia in the Donetsk region and Izium in the Kharkiv region, Popasna and Rubiznie in the Luhansk region and Trostanyets in the Sumy region, according to the United Nations.
Most civilian casualties were caused by explosive weapons with a wide range, including heavy artillery bombardment and multiple rocket launchers, as well as missile and air strikes, the United Nations said.
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