a cosmic stone kid against bella ruth's moldova and it's also interesting how it unites generations my mother cried when i talked to her on the phone about an hour ago this is her grandfather and what i'm doing right now is very special for my family because three years ago i made i promise to my family that for four consecutive victory days i'm going to carry the portraits of all my great grandfathers all for for the and more to why jim and march and bob of move on here he is this man completes the choir ted so i'm happy to tell you that i kept my promise and this is why it's so heartwarming in some way or another some came back from the front some did not one person who did not was my great grandfather could do small to gulu who died in ninety two to defending stalling but that was one of the key bottles of the great patriotic war schools here in russia we did a little bit of digging around in family background family history and we found out that off at the he separated from his family just before the war he actually part of his new family hides a son my grand my grandmother's cough

vast majority of radioactive particles released landed not in the ukraine but here in the south of bella ruth while the region is a no man's land of frozen in time and less heard with abandoned buildings but a few refuse to leave their homes despite the dangers among them was adam over she says her decision to stay put is the reason she's still alive. once thriving communities now only ghost towns remain. nature is reclaiming the countryside. life came to a sudden end here with a nuclear accident in nearby chernow. at the time a few people refused to leave the exclusion zone. is 90 years old she couldn't bring herself to leave her animals behind to starve and she couldn't imagine a new life in a city apartment there is no stage area when you would almost everyone from our village who was resettled is dead now. only one man and a few women from my village are left. it women are a bit stronger anyway almost all the men are dead he. believes his husband died in 2016 now her son leonid lives with her. he couldn't leave his mother to fend for herself and she didn't want to move to belarus capital