Russian troops have entered the area near the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant on the Belarusian side, according to a spokesman for the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, according to Reuters.
According to the agency, Ukrainian President Zelensky said that at the moment the country’s military forces are trying to prevent the occupation of Chernobyl.
The AFP also reported that fighting was taking place near the Chernobyl nuclear waste storage facility, citing Foreign Ministry adviser Anton Geratshenko.
“The invading troops entered Belarus from the Chernobyl area.
A Ukrainian journalist in a twitter post, talks about fierce fighting between Russian soldiers and Ukrainians guarding nuclear waste.
Russian troops from #Belarus entered the Chernobyl zone. Heavy fights between them and Ukrainian soldiers guarding the storage of radioactive waste. We do not know about the fallout yet. But this is an absolute madness pic.twitter.com/yHll6ApQgk
– Hanna Liubakova (@HannaLiubakova) February 24, 2022
At the same time, the mayor of the capital Kiev said that 4 metro stations would be used as shelters for air raids, while the Ukrainian leadership in the Donetsk region said that Russian forces hit a hospital there, killing four people.
Source: Capital
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