Russian troops get ‘acute radiation sickness’ after digging trenches in Chernobyl
dailystar.co.ukRussian soldiers are being shipped home from the Ukraine war zone with “acute radiation sickness” after digging trenches near the infamous Chernobyl nuclear power plant, it has been reported.
Some of the young conscripts sent into Ukraine had reportedly never even heard of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Chernobyl staff reported seeing the Russians driving “a big convoy of military vehicles” through a wooded area near the reactor known as the “Red Forest,” causing huge clouds of radioactive soil and dust to be kicked up into the air.
The area – named for the pine trees that turned red after being exposed to highly radioactive waste – is considered so highly toxic that not even specially-trained Chernobyl workers are allowed to enter the zone.Valery Seida, the acting general of Chernobyl, said plant safety officers had reported that the invaders "drove wherever they needed to," without listening to advice from on-site experts.According to reports, “several hundred” Russian soldiers were suffering from radiation sickness after being stationed at the plant.Yaroslav Yemelianenko, from the Public Council at the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management, wrote on Facebook that large groups of sick troops were being shipped home: “Another batch of Russian irradiated terrorists who seized the Chernobyl zone was brought to the Belarusian Radiation Medicine Center in Gomel today,” he said, adding “there are rules for dealing with this territory.”Energoatom, the Ukrainian government agency which administers the country’s nuclear power stations, said the Russian soldiers had been digging trenches in the Red Forest: “Not surprisingly, the occupiers received significant doses of radiation and panicked at the first sign of.
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