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The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was the site of fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces during the capture of Chernobyl on 24 February 2022, and during its eventual liberation during a Ukrainian counterattack two months later, as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [15] .
Feb 3, 2022 · The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is the radioactive area surrounding the devastated nuclear plant.
Some 150,000 square kilometres in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine are contaminated and stretch northward of the plant site as far as 500 kilometres. An area spanning 30 kilometres around the plant is considered the “exclusion zone” and is essentially uninhabited.
Feb 14, 2019 · The abandoned Chernobyl exclusion zone could be about to change for the first time since the world's worst nuclear disaster.
Sep 16, 2020 · This so-called Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), which covers 2,800 square km of northern Ukraine, now represents the third-largest nature reserve in mainland Europe and has become an iconic – if accidental – experiment in rewilding.
Apr 6, 2011 · After 25 years, no-one is allowed to live within 20 miles of Chernobyl, scene of the world's worst nuclear accident. The BBC's Daniel Sandford explores life within a nuclear exclusion zone.
Apr 22, 2016 · Thirty years after its fourth reactor exploded on 26 April 1986, an exclusion zone is still in place around the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. Photographer Jerzy Wierzbicki visited the...
