Russian forces had occupied Chernobyl energy plant because the begin of the Russian invasion on Feb 24.
Kyiv:
Russian troops on Tuesday left Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear energy plant after weeks of occupation, officers in Kyiv mentioned Thursday.
“There are now not any outsiders on the territory of the Chernobyl nuclear energy plant,” Ukraine’s state company in command of the Chernobyl exclusion zone mentioned on Fb.
Earlier within the day, the state nuclear firm Energoatom mentioned Russian troops started leaving the station and different exclusion zones, which that they had occupied because the begin of the Russian invasion on Feb 24.
“This morning, the invaders introduced their intentions to depart the Chernobyl nuclear energy plant,” Energoatom mentioned on Telegram.
Russian troops “marched in two columns in direction of the Ukrainian border with Belarus” and a “small quantity” of Russian forces stay within the station, it mentioned.
“There’s additionally proof {that a} column of Russian troopers who’re besieging the city of Slavutych is at the moment being fashioned to maneuver in direction of Belarus,” it mentioned.
Slavutych homes the employees of the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
Because the Russian invasion, there have been fears of elevated radiological dangers in Chernobyl.
Chernobyl’s quantity 4 reactor exploded on April 26, 1986, inflicting the world’s worst nuclear accident which killed tons of and unfold radioactive contamination west throughout Europe.
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