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February 24, 20226:12 PM UTCLast Updated ago

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Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces -Ukrainian official

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An aerial view from a plane shows a New Safe Confinement (NSC)
structure over the old sarcophagus covering the damaged fourth
reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant during a tour to the
Chernobyl exclusion zone, Ukraine April 3, 2021. REUTERS/Gleb
Garanich/File Photo

An aerial view from a plane shows a New Safe Confinement (NSC)
structure over the old sarcophagus covering the damaged fourth
reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant during a tour to the
Chernobyl exclusion zone, Ukraine April 3, 2021. REUTERS/Gleb
Garanich/File Photo

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KYIV, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been
captured by Russian forces, an adviser to the Ukrainian presidential
office, Mykhailo Podolyak, said on Thursday.

"It is impossible to say the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is safe
after a totally pointless attack by the Russians," he said.

"This is one of the most serious threats in Europe today," Podolyak
said.

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Russian troops took over the power plant while Ukrainian forces
battled them on three sides on Thursday after Moscow mounted an
assault by land, sea and air in the biggest attack on a European
state since World War Two.

Some Russian military massed in the Chernobyl "exclusion zone" before
crossing into Ukraine early on Thursday, a Russian security source
said.

Russia wants to control the Chernobyl nuclear reactor to signal NATO
not to interfere militarily, the same source said.

The Chernobyl disaster in then-Soviet Ukraine sent clouds of nuclear
material across much of Europe in 1986 after a botched safety test in
the fourth reactor of the atomic plant.

Decades later, it became a tourist attraction. About a week before
the Russian invasion the Chernobyl zone was shut down for tourists.

"Our defenders are giving their lives so that the tragedy of 1986
will not be repeated," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy
tweeted shortly before the power plant was captured.

"This is a declaration of war against the whole of Europe."

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Reporting by Maria Tsvetkova and Natalia Zinets; Editing by Hugh
Lawson and Jonathan Oatis

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