01-04-2022, 09:35 AM
https://metro.co.uk/2022/03/31/russia-uk...-16382847/
Russian troops are leaving Chernobyl and heading for the border with Belarus, Ukrainian officials say.
The country’s nuclear operator announced the retreat on Thursday, amid reports of Russian soldiers digging trenches and getting ill ‘very quickly’.
But it added that a ‘small number’ were remaining at the defunct plant.
The operator, Energoatom, said that the Russian military are also preparing to leave Slavutych, a nearby city where power plant workers live.
It wasn’t immediately clear why Vladimir Putin’s troops were leaving Chernobyl, which was seized on February 24, the first day of the invasion.
But it comes after claims that dozens of Russians had fallen ill with ‘acute radiation sickness’ at the site.
An employee at the Ukrainian state agency overseeing the exclusion zone said ‘irradiated’ Russian soldiers were being taken away by the bus load to a clinic in Belarus for treatment.
Yaroslav Yemelianenko wrote on Facebook: ‘Another batch of Russian irradiated terrorists who seized the Chernobyl zone was brought to the Belarusian Radiation Medicine Center in Gomel today.
‘Have you dug trenches in the Red Forest, bitches? Now live with it for the rest of your short life.’
Energoatom confirmed reports that the Russians dug trenches in the Red Forest, a 10-square-kilometer (nearly four-square-mile) area surrounding the plant within the Exclusion Zone, and received ‘significant doses of radiation.’
The Russian troops ‘panicked at the first sign of illness,’ which ‘showed up very quickly,’ and began to prepare to leave, the operator said.
Russian troops are leaving Chernobyl and heading for the border with Belarus, Ukrainian officials say.
The country’s nuclear operator announced the retreat on Thursday, amid reports of Russian soldiers digging trenches and getting ill ‘very quickly’.
But it added that a ‘small number’ were remaining at the defunct plant.
The operator, Energoatom, said that the Russian military are also preparing to leave Slavutych, a nearby city where power plant workers live.
It wasn’t immediately clear why Vladimir Putin’s troops were leaving Chernobyl, which was seized on February 24, the first day of the invasion.
But it comes after claims that dozens of Russians had fallen ill with ‘acute radiation sickness’ at the site.
An employee at the Ukrainian state agency overseeing the exclusion zone said ‘irradiated’ Russian soldiers were being taken away by the bus load to a clinic in Belarus for treatment.
Yaroslav Yemelianenko wrote on Facebook: ‘Another batch of Russian irradiated terrorists who seized the Chernobyl zone was brought to the Belarusian Radiation Medicine Center in Gomel today.
‘Have you dug trenches in the Red Forest, bitches? Now live with it for the rest of your short life.’
Energoatom confirmed reports that the Russians dug trenches in the Red Forest, a 10-square-kilometer (nearly four-square-mile) area surrounding the plant within the Exclusion Zone, and received ‘significant doses of radiation.’
The Russian troops ‘panicked at the first sign of illness,’ which ‘showed up very quickly,’ and began to prepare to leave, the operator said.
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