Russian forces occupying the Chernobyl nuclear power plant stole radioactive substances from research laboratories that could potentially kill them. This was announced by the Ukrainian State Agency for Exclusion Zone Management on Facebook, quoted by the BBC.
The agency reports that Russian troops have entered a storage area of the Ecocentre research basestole 133 highly radioactive substances. “Even a small proportion of these substances are fatal if mishandled,” the agency explains, adding that “the location to which the stolen substances were taken is unknown.”
Around Chernobyl, in the Red Forest, in the exclusion zone of the nuclear power plant, where the Russian military dug trenches and tried to build fortifications, sUnusually high levels of radiation were recorded“Ukrainian State Nuclear Company reports on Telegram energy atom, whose boss Petro Kotin, together with the company’s specialists, visited one of the forest areas. The external radiation index “is 1015 times higher than normal,” Energoatom explains, adding that “one of the indicators that forms the internal radiation received by residents from the ground surface (beta contamination)”, “160 times higher than the norm “. Another factor in internal radiation is alpha pollution produced by irradiated nuclear fuel fragments, graphite masonry, etc. scattered in this part of the Red Forest: “These fragments are now found at a depth of 4080 cm; the inmates dug deeper, says Energoatom, concluding that all Russian soldiers who were in the Red Forest and “dug for almost 30 days will face radiation sickness of varying severity.
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