Staff at the former nuclear plant tell the BBC they were forced to negotiate when Russian forces took over.
Engineer Valeriy Semonov, who works at Chernobyl's former nuclear plant, said he scrambled to find fuel to keep the generator running
About 170 Ukrainian national guards who secured the plant were taken to the basement and held captive there. Then Russian soldiers searched the premises for weapons and explosives. "They wanted to know how the facility was managed. They wanted information about all the procedures, documents and operations. I was scared because the questioning was constant, and sometimes forceful," said Oleksandr Lobada, a radiation safety supervisor at the station.Oleksandr Lobada says the Russians who seized Chernobyl wanted full details of how it was run
When the power to the station was cut off for three days, Valeriy said he scrambled to find fuel to keep the generator running, even resorting to stealing some from the Russians.
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