The Latest Breaking News from Chernobyl

James Galbraith, 29, met the love of his wife, Olya, 26, at the site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and there was instant chemistry, so he popped the question outside reactor four

Chernobyl is the site of one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters

Russian soldiers at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant at Pripyat also demolished almost every piece of firefighting equipment at the site and destroyed 698 invaluable computers

Haunting new images show Chernobyl obliterated with graffitied walls, live electrical wiring uncovered, broken windows and rubbish strewn everywhere

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, nuclear facilities have been caught up in the midst of conventional warfare for the first time in history. That nightmare scenario is one that few of the industry’s players had anticipated. In Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia, Russian forces represent a lingering threat to the most basic…

The team behind new BBC drama Better have previously worked on Spooks, Chernobyl and Humans

Russian President Vladimir Putin has put his own troops to work by forcing them to dig trenches at the deadly contaminated Chernobyl site with some already developing symptoms

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When Russian troops took Chernobyl, they drove their tanks through the highly contaminated Red Forest and dug trenches in the toxic earth. They're mistakes that could catch up with them.

While we tend our graves, vanquished Russian troops are heading through Belarus in a cloud of radioactivity after literally digging up the past, says novelist Andrey Kurkov

WARNING, GRAPHIC IMAGES: The short TikTok video was viewed over 11m times as the "scary" clips appeared to show "human remains" in Chernobyl and a creepy masked figure sat in a parked car