The Kyiv blamed Russia that abducted up to 170 employees of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and forcibly transported them to Russia.
The Russians held the staff of the nuclear power plant hostage at the bomb shelter for almost a month before forcibly transporting them to Russia.Ukrainian Interior Minister Denis Monastirsky told CNN, adding that most of the valuable personal belongings of Ukrainian workers were also stolen during their hostage-taking.
There has been no reaction to these allegations from the Russians so far. CNN also reported high levels of radioactivity in the so-called “Red Forest”the radioactive exclusion zone near the Chernobyl plant.
Reactor no. 4 of Chernobyl exploded in 1986 causing the worst nuclear disaster in history. It is covered with a double sarcophagus: one built by the Soviets (and which has now been damaged) and a second, installed in 2019. The other three reactors at the station were gradually shut down after the accident. The latter ceased operations in 2000.
Russian forces withdrew from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which they seized at the start of the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, taking hostages, Ukrainian authorities said last week. Yevhen Kramarenko, head of Energoatomthe service that manages the station, had stated that the Russian troops withdrew from the premises of the decommissioned nuclear power plant.
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