15 minutes agoUkraine says Russians stole Chernobyl's deadly substances
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Ukraine says Russian forces that occupied the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant stole radioactive substances from research labs that could kill them. Ukraine's State Agency for the Management of the Exception Zone, via a Facebook post, has written that Russian troops entered a space storage site of the Ecocentre research base and stole 133 substances [...]
Ukraine's State Agency for Exception Zone Management, through a Facebook post, has written that Russian troops entered a research base storage area and stole 133 highly radioactive substances.
“Even a small part of this activity is deadly if treated unprofessionally”, the agency said, adding that “the location of stolen substances is currently unknown”.
The BBC has been unable to confirm this independently.
Earlier this week, Ukraine's energy minister, German Gulashchenko, said Russian soldiers were exposed to an amount of <x0-powered nuclear radiation <x0).
“They dug bare radiation-contaminated ground, collected radioactive sand in sacks for for for for for fortification, sucked this dust,” said Gulashchenko on Facebook on Friday after visiting the exclusion area.
