Russian troops pushed away from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

After digging trenches in fallout-contaminated woodlands, Russian servicemen were reportedly bused out of the Chernobyl nuclear site with radiation illness.

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 trenches in the Rudu forest? Now live the rest of your short life with this,” he said on Facebook.

“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.

Looters also stole radioactive isotopes from a facility that was used to measure radiation levels at the site.

Ukraine’s State Agency accused Russian forces of taking “unstable” nuclear material from Chernobyl after ransacking a £5 million laboratory.

Putin’s troops are alleged to have then demolished the nuclear waste-filled lab, which was located in a radioactive exclusion zone.

The agency, which was in charge of the site of the world’s worst nuclear meltdown in 1986, stated that the stolen radionuclides are “very active.”

Radionuclides are unstable atoms of chemical elements that emit radiation; the fact that they are currently in Russian hands is a serious issue.

It hoped that with their fatal booty from the November Central Analytical Laboratory, Russian forces would “hurt themselves rather than the civilised world.”

The CIA stated in a statement, “The laboratory had highly active materials and radioactive samples that are currently in the hands of the adversary.”

Disaster & Fear

Earlier this month, Ukraine lost all communication with Chernobyl, raising concerns about a possibly hazardous loss of electricity at the site.

Chernobyl is located 80 miles north of Kyiv on a crucial route into the city from Belarus, Putin’s puppet state where he has stationed 30,000 troops.

Soldiers were claimed to be battling close to the massive sarcophagus that was shutting in the crippled reactor.

Following the Russian capture, the facility lost electricity, and backup generators with only two days of fuel were left to power the complex.

Russian military kidnapped Chernobyl workers, posing yet another huge threat to the site’s day-to-day operations.

There were worries of a major radiation release during severe combat between Russian and Ukrainian forces because the state of the old power plant’s nuclear storage facilities was “unknown” at the time.

According to Ukrainian authorities, radiation levels at Chernobyl surged a day after the takeover.

The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine blamed the increase on a “disturbance” created by Russian soldiers passing through.

The “huge volume of heavy military equipment passing through the exclusion zone” had upset the topsoil at the sensitive location, according to the report.

Officials cautioned that it had resulted in “the emission of contaminated radioactive dust into the air,” but that the increase had been “insignificant” thus far.

Just last week, flames ignited by Russian artillery destroyed 25,000 acres of woodland surrounding Chernobyl.

Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk accused Russia of “irresponsible” behaviour near the captured Chernobyl power plant and requested the UN to send a delegation to investigate the hazards.

She stated that Russian military were stopping firemen from putting out a big number of flames in the area.

“In the framework of nuclear safety, Russian servicemen’s reckless and unprofessional activities pose a very severe threat not just to Ukraine, but to hundreds of millions of Europeans,” Vereshchuk remarked on her Telegram account.

Lyudmila Denisova, Ukraine’s human rights commissioner, warned that growing radioactive air pollution might endanger neighbouring nations.

“Control and control of flames is difficult owing to Russian soldiers’ occupation of the exclusion zone,” she posted on Facebook.

“Radionuclides are emitted into the atmosphere as a result of combustion and are carried large distances by wind. This poses a threat to Ukraine, Belarus, and European countries.”

Failure to intervene, the politician said, might have “irreparable implications” for “the entire planet.”
“Only an urgent withdrawal of Russian soldiers from the region can avert catastrophic results,” Ms Denisova warned.

The reactor explosion and fire in April 1986 killed at least 31 people and sprayed a massive cloud of radioactive particles into the air.