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Stanislav Storozhenko in northern Ukraine & Rachel Hagan

Chernobyl survivor warns of 'very high risk' of nuclear disaster as Russians fight

Survivors of the world's worst nuclear disaster have said they fear history may repeat itself at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia plant.

Mykhaylo Khrushchenko, a native of the Chernobyl region, remembers waking up on April 26, 1986, to an eerily quiet home.

The 71-year-old tells the Mirror: "Not only was there silence but somehow it was cold in my soul. I went out of the house, saw my neighbour and asked her: 'What is it, why aren't the children going to school?' She replied: 'There was an explosion at the nuclear power plant.'"

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