A Russian firing position sits adjacent to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near Chernobyl, Ukraine, Saturday, April 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)A Russian firing position sits adjacent to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near Chernobyl, Ukraine, Saturday, April 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)(AP) — When Russian forces invaded and occupied the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, they dug trenches in one of the world’s most radioactive places. Thousands of tanks and troops rumbled into the Chernobyl exclusion zone at the start of the war, churning up soil contaminated by the world’s worst nuclear disaster. Russia’s invasion marks the first time that occupying a nuclear plant was part of a nation’s military strategy.

Source: The Guardian April 21, 2022 02:15 UTC