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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Olga Vyshnevska

Ukrainian couple evacuated from Chernobyl in 80s are now trapped by war

Valeriy and Halyna, a Ukrainian couple in their 60s, former Chernobyl nuclear plant workers, listen during an interview with Reuters?via Zoom?while trapped as Russian troops shell towns and bridges around their home near Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, March 5, 2022. Picture taken March 5, 2022. REUTERS/Staff

Halyna and Valeriy, a Ukrainian couple in their 60s, were evacuated from their home near the Chernobyl plant where they worked as engineers when a reactor exploded in 1986, triggering the world's worst nuclear accident.

Now they are trapped, as Russian troops shell towns and bridges around their home near Chernihiv in northern Ukraine and concerns rise in the West over the security of nuclear sites seized by advancing forces.

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