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

A large area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that was vacated as a result of the accident that shocked the world in 1986 was called the "exclusion zone". At that time, Chernobyl and its ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...