On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), ...

The full extent of Russia’s activities in the Chernobyl exclusion zone is still unknown, ... The building felt deeply of the 1980s, with a map on a wall still showing the Soviet Union.

Russia has advanced around Pokrovsk for many months, but has so far failed to entirely encircle or seize control of the city.

The total Chernobyl-related death count for Belarus, Russia and Ukraine could eventually reach 200,000, it said. The terrible environmental fallout of Chernobyl is still being felt.

As the 36th anniversary of the April 26, 1986, disaster approaches and Russia’s invasion continues, it’s clear that Chernobyl — a relic of the Cold War — was never prepared for this.

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was besieged by Russian forces on Feb. 24, 2022. AP Photo/Mykola Tymchenko, File. As of Friday the nuclear watchdog still had not been able to access the site ...

Russia's capture of the Chernobyl nuclear plant raised alarms across the international community, with many world leaders wondering if Russia chose to seize the area for a specific reason.

Russia seized Chernobyl in late February, and held the site for over a month. Rumors of radioactive poisoning spread. Since the withdrawal of Russian forces on March 31, ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — Here in the dirt of one of the world’s most radioactive places, Russian soldiers dug trenches. Ukrainian officials worry they were, in effect, digging their own ...

Workers at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, have warned for weeks that Russian troops were kicking up clouds of radioactive dust after driving ...