Russian soldiers Chernobyl radiation

Russian forces have withdrawn from Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, the state enterprise overseeing Ukraine's nuclear power plants ...

As a result, almost a riot broke out among the military, and they began to gather from there," continued the statement. And it manifested itself very quickly. The Telegram statement from Energoatom said that a small number of "rashists" -- a Ukrainian slur for Russians that combines the words "fascist" and "racist" -- remained at the station.

Ukraine's nuclear energy company said that Russian forces have largely left the Chernobyl plant and suffered radiation poisoning.

Still, nuclear experts cautioned that the risk of a second Chernobyl disaster on the same scale as the first was essentially nil. At one point, the power plant was brought entirely offline; at another, officials reported that they had lost all contact with staff there. And it manifested itself very quickly.

An employee at the Public Council at the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone management said the soldiers had fled while “irradiated” and bused to a ...

“Have you dug trenches in the Red Forest, b—hes? Now live the rest of your short life with this. The Ukrainian agency had said it hoped Russian troops “will harm [themselves] and not the civilized world.” The lab contained “highly active samples and samples of radionuclides that are now in the hands of the enemy,” the stage agency said in a Facebook post, referring to unstable atoms that release radiation.

The Ukrainian state nuclear company said on Thursday that all of the Russian forces occupying the Chernobyl nuclear power station had withdrawn from the ...

State-owned Energoatom had earlier said most troops had gone, leaving only a small number behind. There was no immediate comment from the Russian authorities. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

Russian soldiers who seized the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster have reportedly landed themselves with acute radiation sickness.

That claim couldn’t be verified, but there have been a handful of radiation spikes reported at the site since the conflict began in February. Remarkably, one of the Russian soldiers reportedly had not even heard of the infamous nuclear disaster that occurred at the site in 1986. There have also been reports of Russian troops driving through a highly irradiated area near Chernobyl called the "Red Forest'' without appropriate protective equipment.

Russian troops have left the nuclear facility, Ukraine's state nuclear company says, after weeks-long occupation.

There was no immediate comment from the Russian authorities, who have denied that its forces have put nuclear facilities in Ukraine at risk. A new round of talks aimed at stopping the fighting was scheduled for Friday. Energoatom said Russian soldiers got “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches at the highly contaminated site. “The information is confirmed that the occupiers, who seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and other facilities in the exclusion zone, have set off in two columns towards the Ukrainian border with the Republic of Belarus,” it said in a statement. The UN nuclear watchdog, IAEA, also confirmed that it had been informed by Ukraine that Russian forces handed control of the power plant and “moved convoys of troops”. All the Russian troops that occupied the Chernobyl nuclear power station have now left the site, officials in Kyiv said, as heavy fighting continues to rage on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital and other fronts.

Russian troops have handed control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant back to Ukrainians and left the heavily contaminated site more than a month after ...

“According to the staff of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, there are now no outsiders on site,” Energoatom said in an online post. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Kyiv demanded Russian troops, whose presence prevented the rotation of the plant’s personnel for a period of time, to withdraw from the plant. A medical PAZ bus of the Russian Armed Forces was spotted at the entrance to Mazyr, moving from the side of the R-131 highway. In a separate post, Energoatom said the Russian side had formally agreed to hand back to Ukraine the responsibility for protecting Chernobyl. It shared the scan of a document signed by people it identified as a senior staff member at Chernobyl, the Russian military official assigned to guarding Chernobyl. Russian troops have handed control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant back to Ukrainians and left the heavily contaminated site more than a month after seizing control of it.

As occupiers abandon site and IAEA moves back in, power company says soldiers were exposed by digging trenches in radioactive zone.

The Ukrainian deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk also said Russian troops were exposed to radiation after digging trenches in the forest. Some Ukrainian reports have suggested the soldiers were taken to a special medical facility in nearby Belarus after driving tanks through the exclusion zone, kicking up radioactive dust. Some Russians remained in the surrounding exclusion zone, they said.