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Unprotected Russian soldiers disturbed radioactive dust in Chernobyl's 'Red Forest', workers say

Russian soldiers who seized the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster drove their armoured vehicles without radiation protection through a highly toxic zone called the "Red Forest", kicking up clouds of radioactive dust, workers at the site said.

Reuters

Russian forces ‘militarising’ Chernobyl ‘could pose new radiation threat to Europe’, says Ukrainian deputy PM

Ukraine’s deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk accuses Putin’s forces of ‘irresponsible’ acts at the plant

Evening Standard

Chernobyl radiation spike poses threat to ‘millions’ as Russian bombs fuel wildfires

Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said the use of old volatile weapons in the Chernobyl exclusion zone further risk of damage

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Ukraine says Russian forces 'militarising' near Chernobyl pose new radiation threat

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk has said Russian forces were "militarising" the exclusion zone around Chernobyl, site of the world's worst civil nuclear accident in 1986

Daily Mirror

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

Iryna Vereshchuk also urges UN Security Council to take immediate steps to demilitarise zone

The Independent UK

Russian invasion should encourage Indonesia to revisit its nuclear plan

In 2011, as Indonesia planned to start a nuclear energy program, a giant warning sign crashed in from Japan: the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The disaster was triggered by a gigantic tsunami and it resulted in a broadcast of radioactive pollution over a stretch of Japan’s countryside and across the Pacific…

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Mayor of Chernobyl workers' town says Russian forces have left

Russian forces have left the Ukrainian town of Slavutych, home to workers at the defunct nuclear plant of Chernobyl, after completing their task of surveying it, the mayor said early on Monday.

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Ukraine says Russian forces near Chernobyl could pose new radiation threat

A senior Ukrainian official accused Russia on Sunday of "irresponsible" acts around the occupied Chernobyl power station that could send radiation across much of Europe, and urged the United Nations to dispatch a mission to assess the risks.

Reuters

Russia-Ukraine latest updates: Biden defends Putin remarks

Ukraine news from March 28: Joe Biden refuses to backtrack after saying Vladimir Putin ‘cannot remain in power’.

Al Jazeera

More than 10,000 hectares of forest burning in Chernobyl exclusion zone, Ukraine says

Ukrainian human rights commissioner warns of irreparable consequences for world if fires spread

The Independent UK

Chernobyl radiation fears as 25-acre forest fire burns towards nuclear plant

Fears are growing of a nuclear disaster after Russian troops began shelling the Ukrainian town where staff working at the Chernobyl plant live

Daily Mirror

Zelenskiy promises to work for new sanctions against Russia – as it happened

Volodymyr Zelenskiy says new round of negotiations ahead but that deal would have to be subject to referendum; Joe Biden rejects suggestion he was calling for regime change in Moscow

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine latest updates: Kyiv willing to discuss neutrality

Ukraine news from March 27: Ukrainian president says he is prepared to discuss Russia’s neutrality demand.

Al Jazeera

Kyiv region head says Russian forces have seized Chernobyl workers' town

Russian forces have taken control of the town of Slavutych, where workers at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant live, the governor of Kyiv region Oleksandr Pavlyuk said on Saturday.

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France 24

As it happened: Multiple rockets hit Lviv in western Ukraine

Four rockets hit the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday, local officials said, in the most significant attack on the city since the start of the war with Russia. Governor Maksym Kozytskyy said five people had been woundedafter two rockets hit a fuel depot and two others later hit…

Reuters

Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now

Russian forces have taken control of a town where workers at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant live, the governor of Kyiv region said. U.S. President Joe Biden, visiting NATO ally Poland, called Russian President Vladimir Putin a "butcher".

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: secret KGB files revealed in timely Chernobyl documentary

The first part of Channel 4’s fascinating examination of the world’s largest nuclear disaster to date. Plus: Welsh crime drama Hidden gets grittier. Here’s everything to watch this evening

The Guardian - AU

Institute for Study of War says Russians unable to secure Kyiv attack positions – as it happened

Think tank says ‘increasingly static nature of the fighting reflects incapacity of Russian forces rather than any shift in Russian objectives or efforts’

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Al Jazeera

Latest Ukraine updates: Five wounded in Russian attack on Lviv

Ukraine war news from March 26: Regional governor Maksym Kozytsky says two missile attacks wounded at least five people.

Reuters

Chernobyl staff have not been rotated in four days, no end in sight -IAEA

Staff on duty at Chernobyl's Russian-held radioactive waste facilities have not been rotated in four days and Ukraine cannot say when that will change because of fighting in the town where many of them live, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday.

Daily Mirror

Chernobyl nuclear disaster fears as Russians shell Ukrainian town where staff work

G7 leaders have come together this week to warn that Russia's attack on the site in Ukraine could lead to another nuclear "catastrophe" as Russian forces destroyed a laboratory at the Chernobyl plant

Reuters

Ukraine says Chernobyl workers' town is isolated by Russian forces

Local authorities in Ukraine said on Friday the town of Slavutych that services the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant was "completely isolated", with Russian forces just beyond the town's limits.

Al Jazeera

Latest Ukraine updates: Russia says first phase of war near end

Ukraine war news from March 25: Russian general says Moscow will push to fully capture eastern region of Donbas.

The Conversation

The Russian takeover of the defunct Chernobyl site challenges the 'peaceful, safe and sustainable' branding of nuclear energy

At least seven forest fires continue to burn around the Russian-held Chernobyl nuclear site in Ukraine, raising fears radionuclides could spread from the defunct facility.

Daily Mirror

Russia steals ‘unstable’ nuclear samples from Chernoybl after 'looting' £5m lab

The Central Analytical Laboratory at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant had been “looted” by Russian troops, according to the Ukrainian state agency responsible for the Chernobyl exclusion zone

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