Eyes still on the nuclear power plant from Chernobyl, one of the first stations of the Russian army immediately after entering Ukrainian territory. Much has been said about what happened inside the facility, including the fact that some soldiers from Moscow even handled highly radioactive material with their bare hands.
Today comes the news, reported by the BBC, ie the British media, that the Russian Armed Forces entered Chernobyl, they would have stolen radioactive substances from research laboratories. The BBC cites as a source a statement from Ukraine’s State Agency for Exclusion Zone Management, which published a statement on its Facebook page. The agency also claims that the illegally stolen substances could potentially kill the same soldiers who came into their possession.
In particular, it is reported that the above substances were stolen by a group of Russian soldiers who entered a storage area of the Ecocentre research base. Right here they would have found and stolen 133 highly radioactive substances. “Even a small fraction of these substances are fatal if mishandled. The location of the stolen substances is currently unknown, the agency said, as reported by the BBC.
Should the news be confirmed, it remains to be seen why the Russian troops would decide to take these 133 highly radioactive substances with them. According to the BBC, it cannot personally confirm the facts, but can only report what has been reported by the Ukrainian state agency for the administration of the exclusion zone.
Only a few days ago, the Ukrainian energy minister spoke about the Russian intervention in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant German Galushchenko said the Russian military had exposed themselves to a “shocking” amount of nuclear radiation, and predicted a few years of life for some of them. “They dug up radioactively contaminated bare earth, collected radioactive sand in bags for fortification, inhaled this dust,” Gulashchenko attacked on Facebook. The minister’s statements were corroborated by the Ukrainian stateowned nuclear energy company Energoatom, which reported that “unusually high levels of radiation had been measured” in the Red Forest area, where the Ukrainian version says the Russians carried out the excavation.