A hero who saved the world in the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear explosion has been pictured today fleeing for his life, as he attempts to escape his blitzed homeland.
Alexei - or Oleksiy - Ananenko, 62, waded through radioactive water to successfully prevent a second cataclysmic explosion at the stricken nuclear reactor.
He was one of three “suicide divers" who volunteered for the perilous mission but he later said he was just “doing [his] job”.
