Russian soldiers were hurried away from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant with RADIATION illness after digging trenches in polluted woodlands

DOZENS of Russian servicemen are said to have been bused out of the Chernobyl nuclear site with radiation poisoning after digging tunnels in fallout-contaminated woodlands.

According to reports, seven buses carrying Vladimir Putin’s soldiers suffering from severe radiation sickness were transported from the exclusion zone to a hospital in Belarus.

The location of the 1986 nuclear catastrophe in northern Ukraine was taken early in the war, raising worries of a massive radioactive disaster due to intensive combat surrounding the facility.

According to UNIAN News Agency, Russian forces allegedly built trenches in the severely hazardous Red Forest zone.

According to site employees, Russian forces drove their tanks and armoured vehicles over the highly radioactive region without radiation shielding, sending up clouds of radioactive dust.

Because the radioactive dust they ingested was likely to induce internal radiation in their bodies, a Chernobyl employee labelled their conduct as “suicidal.”

According to the two Ukrainian sources, soldiers in the convoy did not utilise any anti-radiation equipment while in the Red Forest, the most radioactively polluted area of the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

According to Yaroslav Yemelianenko, an employee of the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management’s Public Council, Russian servicemen were brought to the Belarusian centre of radiation medicine in Gomel.

“Digging the ditches in the Rudu forest?” he said on Facebook. Now you have to live the rest of your brief life with this.

“There are guidelines for dealing with this land. They must perform because radiation is physics, and it operates regardless of status or position.”

The ill servicemen were allegedly transported to Belarus in seven buses, amid claims that Putin’s “ghost buses” are discreetly transporting the war-torn remains of adolescent Russian soldiers out of Ukraine.

To avoid drawing notice, the remains of Russian soldiers are apparently being returned to Russia via Belarus in secret planes, trains, and buses at night.

Passengers at a train stop in Mazyr, Belarus, were “shocked” by the quantity of bodies being placed into the train, while hospital officials elsewhere warned of “overflowing” morgues.

According to US military reports, Russian personnel are retiring from the Chernobyl nuclear facility and heading back towards Belarus in a dramatic retreat.

“Chernobyl is [an] location where they [the Russians] are beginning to relocate some of their forces,” according to a Pentagon officer.

They went on to say that the Russians are “going, walking away from the Chernobyl complex, and relocating to Belarus.”

“We assume they’re departing,” the official said, “but I can’t assure you that they’re all gone.”

Earlier on Wednesday, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby claimed the US has witnessed Russian forces marching north toward or into Belarus near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.

He was keen to emphasise that the US did not consider this a withdrawal, but rather an endeavour by Russia to replenish, refit, and then relocate its soldiers.

“We don’t know where these troops are headed,” he explained.

It was alleged earlier this week that radioactive material was stolen from the site of the wrecked nuclear power facility.

According to military analysts, there is a modest danger that the ingredients may be used to make a “dirty bomb” if they fall into the wrong hands.

A dirty bomb is an explosive device that mixes radioactive material with ordinary explosive.