'When they were asked if they knew about the 1986 catastrophe... they did not have a clue. They had no idea what kind of a facility they were at.'
Energoatom, the Ukrainian state nuclear company, the troops"panicked at the first sign of illness," which"showed up very quickly."which surrounds the former Chernobyl power plant that was the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history in 1986.
"When they were asked if they knew about the 1986 catastrophe... they did not have a clue. They had no idea what kind of a facility they were at."the outlet the Russian military's actions were"suicidal," referring to troops who drove armored vehicles through the Red Forest and disturbed radioactive dust without radiation protection, likely causing internal radiation exposure as they inhaled the dust.
"The convoy kicked up a big column of dust. Many radiation safety sensors showed exceeded levels," a worker toldThe Ukrainian state agency that manages the Exclusion Zone lost control of its radiation monitoring system shortly after the Russians seized Chernobyl, but said on February 27 that the last record its sensors had shown that the absorbed dose of radiation at the site was seven times higher than normal following the takeover.
Reports that Russian soldiers have now left the site with radiation sickness follow numerous earlier reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin's military had been unprepared for its assault on Ukraine. Earlier this month, U.S. intelligencethat"poorly trained and ill-prepared" young Russian conscripts were surrendering in large numbers or sabotaging their vehicles to avoid combat.
"Russia's ruthless treatment of its own soldiers, while concealable at a small scale, has now brought about operational repercussions," Jack Watling of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
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