Russian forces leave Chernobyl; UN watchdog offers Ukraine more help
Posted: 4th April 2022
By Susan D’Agostino | April 1, 2022
Internal Troops of the Ministry for Internal Affairs (Russia). Credit: Vitaly V. Kuzmin. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) this week that the Russian troops that took control of the former Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the first days of the war have left and headed in the direction of Belarus. The IAEA expects to send assistance and a support mission to Chernobyl in upcoming days. Though the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant—the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986—is no longer operational, it requires constant management.
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