In late March, Ukrainian authorities announced that Russian forces had left Chernobyl and Russia handed over control of the decommissioned nuclear power plant to the Ukrainians.
Ukrainian authorities subsequently claimed that Russian soldiers were probably exposed to “significant amounts” of radiation after digging trenches in a highly radioactive area. often referred to as the “red forest”.
Norway creates a new scenario
– The information about the trenches that the racists (Russian fascists, journ.anm.) Dug in the “red forest”, the most radioactive in the entire exclusion zone, was confirmed. So it is not surprising that the occupiers were exposed to significant amounts of radiation and panicked at the first sign of illness, claimed Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear power company Energoatom.
Gloomy message
Ukraine’s Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko now claims that the Russian soldiers who dug the trenches have a maximum of one year left to live. It writes the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense on Twitter.
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– It is the brutal fate and merciless end of Russian soldiers who are killed by their own command, the ministry writes.
No documentation has been submitted for the claim.
russian soldiers who were digging fortifications near the Chornobyl nuclear power plant have no more than a year to live, says the head of @minenergo_ua German Galushchenko. That’s the hard fate and ruthless end of russian military who are being killed by their own command.
— Defence of Ukraine (@DefenceU) April 8, 2022
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The Chernobyl nuclear power plant fell into Russian hands in February. Ukrainian forces regained control of the nuclear power plant in late March, after Russian forces withdrew from the area north of the capital Kyiv.
– All equipment at Chernobyl works. The control and monitoring of the radioactivity works as usual, said the head of the power plant, Valeryj Seida, in a statement.
“Suburbs of Death” paid the price
Expert: Unlikely
Edwin Lyman, who heads the work on nuclear safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, has previously stated that it seems unlikely that a large number of soldiers have developed serious radiation sickness, but that it is impossible to know without further details, according to Associated Press.
He told the news agency that contaminated material was probably buried or covered with soil after the clean-up of Chernobyl, and that some soldiers may have been exposed to a “hot spot” of radiation while digging. Other soldiers may have assumed that they were also at risk, he believes.
