Russian troops have started leaving the Chernobyl nuclear plant after soldiers got “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches at the site.
Russian troops began leaving the Chernobyl nuclear plant after soldiers got “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches at the contaminated site.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that conditions weren’t yet “ripe” for a cease-fire in Ukraine.Russian troops began leaving the Chernobyl nuclear plant after soldiers got “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches at the highly contaminated site, Ukraine’s state power company said as fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other fronts.
The Russian defence ministry said on Thursday, Kiev time, it would open a humanitarian corridor from the besieged city of Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia on Friday, Tass news agency reported. At the same time, Russian forces shelled Kyiv suburbs, two days after the Kremlin announced it would significantly scale back operations near both the capital and the northern city of Chernihiv to “increase mutual trust and create conditions for further negotiations”.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said 45 buses would be sent to collect civilians who have suffered some of the worst privations of the war.
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