Russia is playing with nuclear fire in Zaporizhzhia
On April 26, 1986, the fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic exploded, releasing a radioactive cloud and toxic isotopes into the sky.
It took an entire week for the Politburo in Moscow to evacuate Ukrainians within a 30-kilometre range of the disaster site. People in Kyiv, just 130 kilometres away from the plant,days after the explosion, unaware of the threat. And when the Ukraine SSR’s leaders finally announced evacuation plans after days of government denials, it sparked the resentment and anger that remains at the heart of today’s Ukrainian independence movement.
Inexplicably, history is repeating itself 36 years later. On March 4, Russians captured the city of Enerhodar, home to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant – the largest one in Europe, generating up to 20 per cent of Ukraine’s electricity. Ever since, the Russians have been working to
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