Kyiv has accused Russia of abducting up to 170 workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and forcibly transferring them to Russia.
The Russians held the nuclear’s staff hostage at the plant’s bomb shelter for almost a month before forcibly transporting them to Russia, Ukrainian Interior Minister Denis Monastirsky told CNN, adding that most of the Ukrainians’ valuables workers were also abducted during their hostage-taking.
There has been no reaction to these allegations from the Russians so far. CNN also reported high levels of radioactivity in the so-called “Red Forest”, the radioactive exclusion zone near the Chernobyl plant.
Reactor no. 4 Chernobyl exploded in 1986 causing the worst nuclear disaster in history. It is covered with a double sarcophagus: one built by the Soviets (and which has now been damaged) and a second, installed in 2019. The other three reactors at the station were gradually shut down after the accident. The latter ceased operations in 2000.
Russian forces withdrew from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which they seized at the start of the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, taking hostages, Ukrainian authorities said last week, while Yevgeny Kramarenko, the head of Energoat who manages the station, had stated that the Russian troops had left the premises of the decommissioned nuclear power plant.
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