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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emily Goddard

Unprotected Russian soldiers disturbed radioactive dust in highly toxic Chernobyl ‘red forest’

Reuters

Russian soldiers drove armoured vehicles without radiation protection through Chernobyl’s highly toxic “red forest”, kicking up clouds of radioactive dust, workers at the site have said.

A Chernobyl employee said the act was “suicidal” for the soldiers, who had seized the site of the nuclear disaster, because the radioactive dust they inhaled was likely to cause internal radiation in their bodies.

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