Russia's Chernobyl gaffes from camping in radioactive forest to bare hands death move

dailystar.co.uk:

Chernobyl power plant workers have revealed the potentially catastrophic blunders made by Russian soldiers.Vladimir Putin's troops have now retreated from the 1986 radioactive disaster site, leaving land mines in their wake after storming the area on February 24.

The Ukrainians whose job it is to keep Chernobyl safe say they did everything in their power to prevent invading troops causing a "tragedy for humanity" during their occupation.

What the likes of radiation safety supervisor, Oleksandr Lobada could not do however was save every soldier from mindless gaffes including handling chemical waste with their bare hands.

A cook at the station, Natasha Siloshenko, 45, who serves nuclear workers described the army's arrival as a "sea of vehicles.She told BBC News: “They came in waves through the zone, driving fast toward Kyiv.”When they arrived, Oleksandr was aggressively quizzed on how everything worked.He said: "I was scared because the questioning was constant, and sometimes forceful."Power to the station was dangerously cut off for three days leaving Valeriy Simyonov, the chief safety engineer at Chernobyl, stealing fuel from the Russians to keep the generator running.His colleague Oleksandr explained: "If we had lost power, it could have been catastrophic.