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The Daily Beast reports:
Several hundred Russian soldiers were forced to hastily withdraw from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine after suffering “acute radiation sickness” from contaminated soil, according to Ukrainian officials.
The troops, who reportedly dug trenches in a contaminated Red Forest near the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history, are now being treated in a special medical facility in Gomel, Belarus.
Local reports suggest that seven buses with the zapped troops arrived in Gomel early Thursday. Journalists on the ground have also reported “ghost buses” of dead soldiers being transported from Belarus to Russia under the cover of dark.
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The area is considered so highly toxic that not even highly specialized Chernobyl workers are allowed to enter the zone https://t.co/oBxpsln0vR
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 31, 2022
#UPDATE Russian forces have begun to pull out of the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power site, a US defense official said Wednesday, a day after Moscow said it would scale back attacks on two key Ukrainian cities https://t.co/apsEuYTsif
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) March 30, 2022
Chernobyl employees say Russian soldiers had no idea what the plant was and call their behavior ‘suicidal’ https://t.co/SOnhb8iDO2
— Alexa O’Brien (@alexadobrien) March 30, 2022
“The regular soldiers one of the workers spoke to when they worked alongside them in the facility had not heard about the explosion, he said.” Unprotected Russian soldiers disturbed radioactive dust in Chernobyl’s ‘Red Forest’, workers say https://t.co/NZZnF1hhHy
— Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) March 31, 2022
Russian soldiers who seized the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster drove their armoured vehicles without radiation protection through a highly toxic zone called the “Red Forest”, kicking up clouds of radioactive dust, workers at the site said. https://t.co/efcDfBORAa
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) March 29, 2022
Seven busses packed with Russian soldiers suffering from Acute Radiation Syndrome arrived to #Belarus from the #Ukrainian #Chernobyl exclusion zone. Source: member of public council of state #Ukraine agency of exclusion zone Yaroslav Yemelyanenko via Unian news agency.
— Victor Kovalenko (@MrKovalenko) March 30, 2022