Posted on 04/07/2022 1:24:14 AM PDT by GonzoII
WASHINGTON — A Ukrainian official has provided VOA with exclusive photos of the aftermath of Russia’s five-week occupation of Ukraine’s decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant, showing what he says are Russian trenches dug into radioactive soil near a 1986 nuclear accident at the site. Evgen Kramarenko, director of the Ukrainian state agency managing the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl plant, sent the photos to VOA on Wednesday, saying he had taken them himself on a visit to the site with several of his colleagues the day before.It was the first visit to the site by Kramarenko’s team since Russian troops withdrew from the plant and the surrounding area on March 31, ending an occupation that began on February 24, when Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor.
In a phone interview with VOA, Kramarenko said the photos show trenches that Russian troops dug using heavy machinery in a grassy field covering radioactive soil near the Chernobyl plant’s destroyed No. 4 reactor.
That reactor’s explosion on April 26, 1986, was the world’s worst nuclear accident, killing 31 people in its immediate aftermath and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate surrounding communities, including in nearby Belarus. The exclusion zone set up after the accident extends to 30 kilometers from the Chernobyl plant.
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"Belarus-based science journalist Siarhei Besarab told VOA that the area around Chernobyl’s No. 4 reactor is contaminated with the three most common types of radiation: alpha particles, beta particles and gamma ray-irradiated soil. ‘Given what we know about the area where the Russian soldiers were digging, it’s the most concentrated spot with all three types of radiation,’ Besarab said."
There’s an area about a mile or two west of the nuke plant...called the Red Forest. After the event...most of the trees died out, and there was a project to re-seed the local area. On contamination-chatter...it’s a fairly bad area to hang out, and the last thing you’d want to do is dig trenches or foxholes there.
Russian soldiers involved = human glowsticks
If a Russian soldier farts do the globalists propagandists report it as a chemical weapons release, or even worse, a terrorist attack on the environment? Cue the soros sad society to talk about the bumbers of bodies while the Ukrainians still have internet and electricity.
If biden n co get to replace putin.. their will be true one world government.
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Russians dug trenches. Oh the horror.
Of course, the Ukrainians have had Chernobyl all to themselves for almost a week now, so no telling what they’ve been up to. But we’re supposed to believe it was Russia with absolutely no evidence. I just expected freepers to be more discerning and not just take at face value whatever the media says. 😖
I don’t believe a damn word coming out of either of these countries OR the media, AND I don’t give a damn THIS country is a mess right now and I FULLY BELIEVE that this whole damn thing was CREATED by Biden AND our intel agency!! Putin HAD TO GO he was not going along with the NWO!!
Every anti conservstive or tabloid trash is gospel to some. Jim Jones ish
Any barrier, now matter how thin, can be a good protector against harmful radiation. For example, alpha particles can be stopped (absorbed and decayed) through a centimeter or less of everyday air, or a sheet of tissue paper, or less). But if you invest too many of them, you’ll likely die of a cancer or radiation poisoning eventually. More energetic particle, such beta and gamma, take a lot more shielding to stop. So yeah, digging trenches in highly radioactive soil is not a smart thing to do. That radiation that was sequestered is no longer being shielded and the harmful radiation readings in that immediate are are likely to go up, but probably not a health risk to anyone except a person hanging out in those ditches for a long time.
I don’t see why you’re complaining about this. You’d think more dead Russians would make your day.
These stupid ones were probably among the more professional Russian troops because the less professional would have avoided the contamination by being too lazy to dig.
He's not complaining, he's pointing out what retards the Russian officers are, to require their men to dig trenches in Chernobyl.
In fact, while Ukraine still discourages it, far from being abandoned, several hundred people have actually moved back into the exclusion zone and live, having things like a grocery store and radio station. Not to mention the hundreds more that actually still work at the Chernobyl site on a daily basis.
That's not to say there is zero danger, especially from going around digging. Because in the aftermath of the explosion, the Soviets took a lot contaminated soil and other debris and quickly buried in only under a few feet of dirt, so there would be some risk of hitting one of those spots.
But I found some of the reports that Russian soldiers had suffered severe radiation poisoning a bit dubious, you would almost have to be trying hard to actually locate enough radioactive material outside the plant to cause radiation poisoning over such a short period of time.
In this case...it was weapons-grade stupidity.
If you have proof Russia didn’t do it, post it
>>But we’re supposed to believe it was Russia with absolutely no evidence.
Well dug out trenchs is evidence is it not?
Or are you suggesting the ukes would be so stupid to dig these trenches, irradiate themselves to create propaganda?
No, I think the Russian gopniks did it themselves.
Fissionable weapons grade stupidity...literally.
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