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Danya Bazaraa

Russian soldier killed by 'radiation from damaged Chernobyl nuclear plant'

A Russian soldier has been killed by radiation from the damaged Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine after his unit camped in a toxic forest, according to reports.

The soldier was part of a team that captured the power plant in the first days of the war before occupying the 20-mile exclusion zone around it.

They dug trenches into radioactive mud and their trucks kicked up radioactive dust as they drove along dirt roads, The Telegraph reports.

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