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  • Ukraine war: Chernobyl scarred by Russian troops' damage and looting

    06/03/2022 6:44:48 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 22 replies
    BBC News ^ | June 3, 2022 | Laurence Peter
    Ukraine says the Russian army looted or damaged more than 1,000 computers at the Chernobyl nuclear power station and stole trucks and radiation dosimeters. Chernobyl's information director Vitaliy Medved said nuclear equipment was not damaged and "regarding radiation safety everything is OK". The losses caused by the Russian occupation - now ended - are put at more than 1.6bn hryvnia (£44m; $54m). The explosion of a reactor at Chernobyl spread radiation across Europe in 1986. The decommissioned plant, north of Kyiv, lies near the Belarus border and was quickly occupied by Russian troops after their 24 February invasion. Russian forces...