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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Namita Singh

Russian occupation of Chernobyl could send radiation across Europe, warns deputy Ukrainian PM

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Ukraine’s deputy prime minister has warned about the risk of radiation at the Chernobyl power station, as she slammed Russian forces for “militarising” the exclusion zone around the station.

Iryna Vereshchuk demanded that the UN Security Council take immediate steps to demilitarise the zone, and dispatch a special mission to eliminate the risk of an accident at the site of the world’s worst civil nuclear disaster.

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