Rome, April 10, 2022 New disturbing details emerge Chernobylat which the nuclear power plant was occupied by the Russians for weeks during the fighting war in Ukraine. That Moscow Armed Forces They stole radioactive substances from research labs that could potentially kill them, according to the Ukrainian state agency for the administration of the restricted zone on Facebook, quoted by the BBC. The agency reports that Russian troops who entered a storage area of the Ecocentre research base stole 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.”
More details emerge on the battlefield as well. In the Red Forest, in the exclusion zone of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant, where the Russian military was digging Trenches and attempts to build fortificationsi, “were registered unusually high levels of radiation“. On Telegram, the Ukrainian stateowned nuclear energy company Energoatom, whose head Petro Kotin, together with the company’s specialists, visited one of the forest areas, reports that the external radiation index is” 1015 times higher than normal, “he added that “one of the indicators , which forms the internal radiation (beta contamination) received by the occupants from the floor surface”, is “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 have been in the Red Forest for almost 30 days and have “dug must do so Coping with radiation sickness of varying degrees of severity“.
Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said yesterday that Russian soldiers were digging trenches near the nuclear power plant they are not older than a year.
“In Chernobyl, Russian soldiers touched the garbage with their bare hands”