i realized chernobyl radiation will go.lized that i have a technical education before, and the station, and i have lovi mikhailovich. uh set the task, what did he tell me? i 'll go from the side of the blinker. and you, please, come on the reverse side from the side of the block from the side of the vector branch. well, that is, it goes there. that's what i did what i did the chernobyl nuclear power plant consisted of four power units, the first two were a separate building. but the third and fourth were actually merged, that is, the reactors different. but the construction itself around them is common on the night of may 23, 86, alexander gudkov and vladimir maksimchuk. they moved from different sides towards each other. to reconnoiter the situation, it turned out that the room of the circulation pumps between the third and the main emergency fourth power unit was on fire . it may become inevitable. i understand that the situation is very difficult, very serious. so, uh, he made a decision, he made a decision to get everyo

soviet the soviet union reported the accident only a few days after the chernobyl nuclear power plant accident later, soviet secretary general gorbachev admits that the authorities continued to hide from the population how dangerous the situation was the first information is ours from the verification day смотреть that's it now now it's clear there was such attention that there was an accident but no boiler explosions nobody spoke ukrainian voice of america journalists first of all started looking in washington for atomic energy specialists who would explain to listeners what radiation is and what the symptoms are radiation and what to do in case of radioactive contamination, it was the most difficult time for the ukrainian and russian services then worked very closely to find specialists in washington who explained what radioactivity is symptoms, we did not want to sow panic, but at the same time we were a voice available to the population during the crisis, the former head of the european division of the voice of america recalls how important it was then to take your time and check

the chernobyl zone is recovering from destruction and looting. to the state agency from the management of the exclusion zone ukraine will successfully overcome the consequences of this disaster for the second time, well, actually, the fact that the occupation of the chernobyl nuclear power plant was extremely dangerous was also recognized by the director of the international atomic energy agency, rafael grossi, today he personally visited the emergency a, according to him, due to the movement of heavy equipment of the russian troops in the chernobyl zone the level of radiation was increasing there , now everything has stabilized and is now within the normal range, and the head of megate assured that these indicators are monitored daily, and the president volodymyr zelenskyy said that today it is not enough to simply remember chernobyl, because today russia has created a threat that could exceed the accident that happened 36 years ago. zelenskyy said this in his daily closing address. atomic disaster in the history of mankind, but this year it is

he stayed forever the wreckage of the chernobyl reactor.around 8:00 in the morning it was 7:30. maybe there were a lot of people who were taken away with us. already dead , he was from the station, he just died hmm, well, how they brought him still alive, like to the hospital, and he died in the hospital already. but for a week, maybe even there, the blockages didn’t tell me that it’s already impossible to go there, already everything was rushing around the city in search of her husband and lyudmila ignatenko fled to the hospital. we were not allowed through. there was already a lot of it around 8 am. yes, their hands were burned, firstly, it was necessary to close some kind of valve, and they closed this red-hot valve with his hands. there were some kind of protective gloves from the valve, these were, because it would be a disaster in general, burnt hands. it was nothing to calm herself the young wife of a firefighter, but her husband asked her. the same train to run from five, ah, i would not have left, i would not have left him. how did

trial of the accused in chernobyl catastrophe passed through the scene of a crime in the city of chernobylded reactor, nikolai maksimovich dvorik was fenced so that he could drive up, about 60 soviet and foreign journalists allowed the hall, knowing that the unit was aging with radioactive substances, without taking measures to determine the level of radiation, dyatlov sent a subordinate personnel to clarify the situation in the danger zone without the accompaniment of the dosimetric control service, the press was allowed. shchena denmark and the sentencing of the hearings themselves in view of the special significance of the object were carried out in a closed regime at about 8 am on april 2006, 1986, shift personnel and employees of other departments were admitted to the station in full force. although it wasn't necessary. the trial continued. 18 days in the dock, six on july 29, 1987, they were sentenced, you were charged, i understand. your attitude to a certain accusation is recognized does not recognize. no, i do not plead guilty and i do not plead guilty to the operational staff of

the fate of the fourth will forever remain unknown. 35 years have passed since the chernobyl tragedy happened on april 26, 1986 remember, everyone born in the ussr made dozens of films written by sotnik and articles, but much of this tragedy still remained behind the scenes, and chernobyl continued to hide its secrets behind the perimeter of the exclusion zone dead settlements, surviving people with crippled destinies and a huge number of secrets, which seemed to be forever covered with radiation ash. and only now we managed to meet with those who kept silent all these years. today, many participants in those events for the first time tell the whole truth. hallelujah can be said about a new city that has just been born. unless it arose thanks to the energy giant of the chernobyl nuclear power plant, these shots were filmed in eighty-third, clean streets, wide avenues pripyat, an exemplary young city happy future city of pripyat , lucky those who created it managed not only to put a particle of their heart into the creation of their hands and mind . they still had the courage to break

uh, a nurse, says she took his medical unit to the chernobyl reactor.to the cemetery in the house. and, uh, this same hawk moth volodin - it’s already driving, and in did not go this year, because the trains were no longer running . whether this is the house where slavik got an apartment, here he sells and lived a little in this house. this is a street with one house, hydroprojector street, building 1, it’s not clear whether you like it or not, but for some reason they go on their own. it's right down the hallway. you kind of come in, but look already, you know, there, first of all, it’s already dangerous to go in. it is no longer possible to go there at his dilapidated house, he will take the last photo as a keepsake. to many families of the liquidators only memory remains memory, against which even radiation is powerless mikhail gendelev was with you, see you in a new investigation based on real events.

the level of radiation at the chernobyl nuclear power plant is normal despite the month of occupationzone by russian troops , the head of the international atomic energy agency, raphael grossi, said this during a visit to the chernobyl nuclear power plant today the head of megate emphasized that the short russian occupation of this area was very, very, very dangerous and the level of radiation i would say normal i said it was some points when the level increased due to the movement of heavy enemy equipment brought here by the russians and when they left here. well, let's also not forget the heroic digging of these trenches in the red forest by the russians, which caused a significant blow to their health, so yaroslav emelianenko is with us in touch, e-e director of chernobyl tour, member of the public council of the state agency of ukraine for the management of the exclusion zone, mr. yaroslav i greet you good evening well, the enemy has come, the enemy hastily left, the month of occupation is actually already possible now to get to those places where the enemies dug trenches in the a

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chernobyl is also inside ukraine.nd you may remember that at the very start of russia's invasion of ukraine. chernobyl is one of the first places that putin sent in russian soldiers to occupy. now why putin's and russian soldiers to occupy chernobyl we still don't really understand. but we're finally now starting to get a better idea of what the russians did while they were at that site. this is from the associated press, daylight for noble ukraine. quote, in the early hours of russia's invasion of ukraine in february, thousands of tanks and troops rumbled into the forested chernobyl exclusion zone. turning up highly contaminated soil from the site of the 1986 accident that was the world's worst nuclear disaster. in the dirt of one of the world's most react to places, russian soldiers dug trenches. ukrainian officials worry they may have been digging their own graves. for more than a month, some russian soldiers bumped in the earth within sight of the massive structure bill to contain radiation from the damage chernob

date line chernobyl ukraine. in the earliest hours of russia's invasion of ukraine in february, thousands of tanks and troops ran into the chernobyl forested exclusion zone churning up highly contaminated soil from the site of a 1986 accident that was the world's worst nuclear disaster. in the dirt of one of the world's most radio active place, russian soldiers dug trenches. ukrainian officials worry they were digging their own graves. for more than a month, some russian soldiers bunked in the earth, in site of the massive structure built to contain radiation, from the damaged chernobyl nuclear reactor. of a, a closer inspection of their trenches was impossible because even walking on that dirt is discouraged because of radio activity. the deputy head of the state agency that manages the chernobyl exclusion zone told the a. p. today that he believes hundreds of thousands of soldiers damaged their health, likely with little idea to the consequences, despite plant workers' warnings to their commanders. told the a.

it turns out that they do not realize what chernobyl is from the word at all, the russian troops whoe on kyiv through the chernobyl zone used this closed territory as a military bridgehead, they they set up positions on the earth, on which it is simply forbidden to even stand, they chased armored vehicles because the territory where pollution, radiation , materials are buried and where the number of radioactive particles is simply off the scale, they destroyed the dosimetric control points, broke and looted the radiation control system at the chernobyl nuclear power plant, looted the nuclear analytical laboratory, they even stole contaminated things that were confiscated from violators of the rules of the exclusion zone if in russia they forgot what chernobyl is. this means that global control due to russian atomic facilities and nuclear technologies, russia is blocking the gas valve of bulgaria and poland, the energy companies of these countries received a warning from gazprom that the supply of blue fuel from the inside will stop that were preparing for such a situation, had alread

it turns out that they do not realize what chernobyl is. they tried to advance on kyiv through the chernobylt up positions on land on which it is simply forbidden to even stand, they drove armored vehicles, because the territory where pollution, radiation, materials are buried and where the number of radioactive particles is simply off the scale, they destroyed the dosimetric control points, broke and looted the radiation control system at the chernobyl nuclear power plant, looted the nuclear analytical laboratory, they even stole contaminated things that confiscated violators of the rules of the exclusion zone, if in russia they forgot what is chernobyl? this means global control over russian atomic and nuclear facilities technologies, poland introduced its own sanctions against russian oligarchs and companies, the list included the richest people in the russian federation, such as billionaires oleg depaska and mykhailo fridman, as well as energy companies that imported russian coal to poland . gazprom novatek kamaz and the belarusian fuel company bill-oil were also blacklisted in to the sa

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it's chernobyl. but now we're hearing, young soldiers are driving through a no-go red force, digging trenches possibly. what is your reaction when you hear this? >> first, just incredible recklessness or incompetence or stupidity that they can be so cavalier about a sensitive area about chernobyl to allow their troops to dig trenches. it's just ridiculous. words fail me. and the other thing this shows is how vulnerable these places are, notably nerve chernobyl, where the shield such as it is, the earth, is pretty thin. i have been concerned about this for 15 of the russian -- the ukrainian nuclear reactors, and if something, an attack, an errant bomb, errant mis missile, we would have a real disaster on our hands. >> it's amazing that russian shall sent young kids in the nuclear power zones without training or education, and in some cases, there are reports some of the kids didn't understand what chernobyl is, the meaning of that word. what do you think it could mean for russian troop morale if some

tetiana nakonechna npp every year on april 26, journalists go to the chernobyl nuclear power plant, but on this road for the first time across the river , you have to cross several pontoon crossings laid near blown-up bridges. there was a russian peace here, well, mr. valery looks at the guests without unnecessary emotions. for 36 years, he has become accustomed to official events, he is a native resident, well, this is my little motherland , you understand and that’s all and to wait somewhere far away if it’s my fate to die here, then i died or it’s for i know everything i’m saying i was born here grew up here i stayed at home after the accident in 1986 i took out the victims at that time the liquidators did not go anywhere, and during the russian occupation, convoys of russian vehicles were constantly passing by his house, the invaders also came, came twice, looked at our weapons. journalists, official delegations arrive and, in fact, almost nothing reminds of the more than a month of occupation in which she stayed from the inside . in the occupation, and in fact 24/7 without shif

what is the situation in chernobyl like now? >> the russian troops have ended the zone, this contaminated zone, but is not open to the public usually -- it is not open to the public usually. they stayed there for almost six weeks and in that time, we wait -- we have been hearing that they vandalized many facilities. that is mostly civilian facilities, homes, etc.. they have not entered the the plant. they have done a lot of damage by digging these trenches. the radiation is unequally distributed in this zone. places we went to day you can walk around where you will not get a lot of radiation and then there are places that are highly contaminated and there is a one particular forest that is known for being the highest, the most contaminated place in this zone and that is where they dock the trenches. -- dug the trenches. the soil where the radiation was stored, the radiation is higher than it was before in this zone. >> russian forces also occupied another power plant. how big was the risk there? >> the plant is under russian con

the chernobyl zone used this closed territory as a military bridgehead, they set up positions on the earth, on which it is simply forbidden to even stand, they drove armored vehicles through the territory where radiation pollution and materials are buried and where the number of radioactive frequencies is simply off the scale , they destroyed the dosimetric control points, broke and hacked the radiation control system on the nuclear analytical laboratory of the chernobyl nuclear power plant was looted, they even stole contaminated things that were confiscated violators of the rules of the exclusion zone only thanks to the professionalism and conscientiousness of our specialists who work at the chernobyl station and other facilities of the chernobyl zone ukraine was saved from a new catastrophe only thanks to the professional team of the zaporizhzhia npp and all of our nuclear industry manages to provide without the emergency operation of the stations today in kyiv, the director of mati, mr. money, was on a visit, discussed with him all the dangers of russia's creation and ways of pos

you visited chernobyl in 2020. i want to start with the question who has custody of chernobyl?are your thoughts on such an uncertainty? there is a lot of uncertainty about these reports of radiation sickness, arthel. it seems that iaea they pretty much confirmed they believe the plant is back in ukrainian hands but there on the ground reports the ukrainian flag over the facility again. i have to tell you, after being there myself and wearing a dosimeter at every place we visited, 75% of the area is about the site over rhode island 25%, especially where the russian soldiers were it's really contaminated and mind was going crazy as they walked from one spot to another as i toured chernobyl working on a documentary for fox nation. arthel: and went to right now judy, read a statement issued friday the ukrainian agency nuclear power station. on russian suffering patient poisoning after digging those trenches near chernobyl. should be noted the fortification and trenches built right here in the red force the most polluted in the entire exclusion zone is also confirmed. it is not surp

sarah rainsford, bbc news, chernobyl.er news: the russian energy company gazprom has said it will stop supplying gas to poland and bulgaria on wednesday morning. both countries have refused to pay in roubles, after moscow introduced new laws last month requiring so—called "unfriendly" states to do so. the polish and bulgarian state energy companies have threatened to take legal action for breach of contract. the world bank says the price of goods could remain at historically high levels until the end of 2024 because of the war in ukraine. wheat — one of the country's main exports — is predicted to soar by more than a0%. it says energy prices will increase more than 50% as europe tries to wean itself off russian supplies. one of america's most prestigious universities is setting aside $100 million to help tackle the social and economic legacies of slavery and racism. an investigation carried out by harvard found that 70 members of its staff owned slaves before the practice was abolished in the state of massachusetts nearly

chernobyl. 36 years ago an explosion at the soviet nuclear reactor there sent a cloud of radio active particles across the region and area stretching for miles around the plant is radio active since and people are not allowed to this day in certain parts of what is called an exclusion zone. a couple of years after the disaster, nbc news's science correspondent got to take a brief trip inside to see the aftermath. >> the home of 50,000 people, plant workers and their families is nowei deserted. helicopters pass overhead to measure the radio activity which is several hundred times more than normalun but millions of times less than it was in the days after the accident. also deserted is the town of chernobyl, and farm villages in the surrounding area several hundred square miles. two years ago, this was a thick forest of pine trees. now, only one tree stands. but this tree too is dying. >> now, that thick forest of pine trees came to be called the red forest because of all of the reddish color basically that the pine trees turned into, as they died from the high levels of radiation. the

she's visited chernobyl and led studies on the nuclear fallout there.o grateful to have your expertise today. russian troops were in control of chernobyl for five weeks, reportedly creating and breathing in dust clouds and digging in the soil in the red forest. in layman's terms, how much radiation may these soldiers have been exposed to? >> thank you for inviting me. we don't know. the minute russian troops entered the chernobyl zone, they switch off their radiological meters so we lost the data points from there. but from anecdotal evidence and interviews, published reports, my understanding is that they may have some exposure, but i don't think it will be in such a substantial amount of radiation that would cause radiation sickness or in any other substantial immediate reactions. >> that's interesting because the state-owned operator of ukraine's nuclear power plant says that russian troops were showing signs of illness, and they started to panic. there was almost a riot among them, according to this official. what would be the initial symptoms of ra

also deserted is the town of chernobyl. and villages surrounding the area. two years ago, this was a thick forest of pine trees. now only one tree stance, but this tree too is dying. >> that the forest of pine trees can to be called the red force because of all the reddish color basically. the pine trees turned into as they died from the high levels of radiation. the entire force was also boulders and buried. when nbc news returned to chernobyl on the 20th anniversary of the disaster, vegetation there was still highly radioactive. >> while radiation levels have returned to normal in some parts of the 18 mile safety zone around and now close reactor, there is still plenty off limits. the radiation varies wildly. here it is elevated, but not too high. if i walk over here just a couple of feet and put this down, it jumps ten times. part of the reason is this mosque concentrates radiation. 20 years after the nuclear catastrophe, chernobyl is still a forbidden land. >> that was 16 years ago, and it is still a forbidden land, particularly the red for us. it remain

and it is not only in chernobyl.t europe's largest nuclear power plant near zaporizhzhia in southern ukraine, and are now occupying it. ukraine's energy minister tells me the international community must step in. >> i think it's -- that is the -- really the act of what they are doing. >> reporter: chernobyl is close to the belarusian border. the russian army used this road as one of its main routes to attack ukraine's capital. the interior minister says his country needs more weapons to defend this border. today, the border between totalitarianism and democracy passes behind our backs, he says. the border between freedom and oppression. we are ready to fight for it. and the ukrainians fear they may have to fight here again soon, as russian president vladimir putin replenishes his forces, continuing to put this nation and nuclear safety in europe at risk. fred pleitgen, cnn at the chernobyl nuclear plant in ukraine. >>> we will take a short break but for our international viewers, inside africa is up next. for our nor

sarah rainsford, bbc news, chernobyl. it will halt the supply of gas to poland and bulgaria later on wednesday. both countries rely on gazprom for most of their gas imports. poland's state gas company has described the move as a breach of contract, but gazprom said warsaw had refused to pay in roubles, in line with new rules announced in march. we have a live page on the war in ukraine on our website. and it's constantly being updated. you can also find an analysis of events, the latest news from reporters on the ground. just log on to bbc.com/news or download the bbc app. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. police in pakistan say three chinese nationals and their pakistani driver were killed in an explosion in the southern port city of karachi. a group that opposes chinese investment in pakistan has said that a female suicide bomber carried out the attack. the group has targeted chinese nationals on a number of occasions, as has the pakistani taliban. the government in sri lanka, which has run out o

of the ukrainian state recognized the occupation of chernobyl not only about the biggest disaster intory of the peaceful atom on the european continent this is a story about a huge lie, because the communist government mykhailo, the citizens hid the truth about this colossal catastrophe, they said they said only for some day there already after the so-called may day parade people's deputy of ukraine fedir venislavskyi yes, mr. fedora glory to ukraine we congratulate you on several informative reasons that deserve discussion with the people's deputy, in particular, the course towards nato and the european union. the verkhovna rada will not change the constitution regarding ukraine's entry into international blocs of various formats. and why abandoned this idea and did they seriously consider the option of changing the constitution in this direction , first of all, we had to remember that during the martial law, the constitution could not be changed. therefore, until the end of the war, even the very ideas about reforming the constitution regarding the course towards nato or other aspe

it's not only in chernobyl. they fired rockets at the largest nuclear power plant near zaporizhzhia in southern ukraine and are now occupying it. the international community must step in. >> i think it is dramatically, it is really the act of nuclear terrorism. what they are doing. >> reporter: chernobyl is close to the belarusian border. the russian army used this road as one of the main routes to ache the capital. the interior minister says his country needs more weapons to defend this border. today the border between totalitarianism and democracy passes behind our backs. the border between freedom and oppression. we are ready to fate for it. and the ukrainians fear they may have to fight here again soon as russian president vladimir putin replenishes his forces, continuing to put this nation and nuclear safety in europe at risk. jake, the ukrainian minister i talked to, he said he believes it was absolutely crazy of the russian troops to dig those positions inside one of the most contaminated places in the wo

this clearly began long before the chernobyl disaster. then what is the reason for genetics, the last time they paid two thousand. they just came about it. yes, there was something there and it was interesting for them to learn. here so, they called, they said, the results are nothing but mixing near. there really were no related marriages in aunt zina's family, so what provoked the appearance of these human and animal mutations. why are her hands so claw-like. where to look for the causes of these terrible mutations, we were told, perhaps, it's all about meteorites. one of them is rumored to have fallen here 300 years ago, but there are also those that collapsed on this earth quite recently, that is, the funnels formed and now the meteor shower. two-headed calves six-legged kittens mutated puppies, what happens to animals in the ulyanovsk region? well, here the case was such that , precisely, small cattle also had an innate relationship. one case shocked the village doctor mikhail cherdakov so much that he cannot forget him for several y

the chernobyl plant hasn't been in operation for years.nement needs to be monitored 24/7 and also there's spent fuel in this compound as well. it's not only chernobyl, russian troops fired on zaporizhzhia in southern ukraine and are now occupying it. ukraine's minister tells me the international community must step in. >> i think it's apparent this is act of civility that they're doing. >> reporter: the russian army used this road as one main route to attack the capital. the interior minister says his country needs more weapons to defend this border. today, the border between totalitarianism and democracy passes behind our backs he says. the border between freedom and oppression, we are ready to fight for it. and the ukrainians fear they may have to fight here again soon as russian president vladimir putin replenishes his forces continuing to put this nation and nuclear safety at risk. fred pleitgen cnn, at the chernobyl nuclear plant in ukraine. >>> well, despite a strike lockdown and widespread testing, a covid outbreak in china shows no

and it's not only in chernobyl. russian troops also fired rockets at europe's largest nuclear power plant near southern ukraine and are now occupying it. ukraine pfls energy minister tells me the international community must step in. >> i think it's dramatically impact, and that is really the act of nuclear territories and what they are doing. >> reporter: chernobyl is close to the border. the russian army used this route to attack the capital. his company needs more weapons to defend this border the interior minister says. today the border between totalitarianism and democracy passes behind our backs, he says. the border between freedom and oppression. we are ready to fight for it. and the ukrainians fear they may have to fight again soon as russian president vladimir putin replenishes his forces continuing to put this nation and nuclear safety in europe at risk. you know, don, i spoke to the ukrainian energy minister for an extended period of time and he said he thinks it's absolutely crazy for the russians to dig

there's a lot of work to be done in chernobyl.omething that we need to confirm. there was, as you were reminding us, a slight increase in the levels of radiation caused by the movement of heavy armoured vehicles and military vehicles in general, when the plant was occupied a few weeks ago. now apparently, there has been a similar situation, perhaps on the way out of them from the plant, and the exclusion zone, which, as you know, is surrounding the the facility itself. so one of the things we are going to be doing, if we can get there next week, is this work and many other things that we need to do there. well, on the work to do there, let's just try and get a quick idea of what exactly that is because you have a number of nuclear plant sites effectively in a war zone. how worried are you, and what are you doing to try and keep them safe? well, from the very beginning of the conflict, we have been saying that we have to have a system of protection, an ad hoc, if you want system to protect this, these facilities 15 nuclear reactors

disaster, so an expert mission led by the director general of the iaea will visit the chernobyl nuclear power plant on the 36th anniversary of the accident and deliver important equipment to the station it was because of the explosion and fire at the reactor on april 26, 1986 that chernobyl became a symbol of the biggest nuclear disaster on the planet and now the whole world has been put at risk again by russia - its troops besieged the station for 5 weeks, the invaders damaged the power supply system, which threatened the operation of the nuclear storage facility, the employees of the station were exhausted, the occupiers did not allow team rotation, russian equipment drove through the territory, and in the polluted the troops dug trenches in rubizhne severodonetsk and popasna in the luhansk region with radiation in the red forest. these are the hottest spots of the last day of the war. this was reported by the adviser to the head of the president's office oleksiy arestovych near raisin in kharkiv oblast and slovyansk and kramatorsk in donetsk oblast, the enemy is trying to advance, bu

and it's not only in chernobyl. russian troops also fired rockets at europe's largest nuclear power plant near zaporizhzhia in southern ukraine and are now occupying it. ukraine's energy minister tells me the international community must step in. >> i think it's dramatically impact. and that is really the act of nuclear terrorism, what they are doing. >> reporter: chernobyl is close to the belarusian border. the russian army used this road as one of its main routes to attack ukraine's capital. the interior minister says that his country needs more weapons to defend this border. today, the border between totaltarianism and democracy passes behind our backs, he says. the border between freedom and oppression. we are ready to fight for it. and the ukrainians fear that they may have to fight here again soon, as russian president vladimir putin replenishes his forces, continuing to put this nation and nuclear safety in europe at risk. fred pleitgen, cnn, at the chernobyl nuclear plant in ukraine. >> fred, thank you for t

and it's not only in chernobyl. russian troops also fired rockets at europe's largest nuclear power plant near zaporizhzhia in southern ukraine and are now occupying it. ukraine's energy minister tells me the international community must step in. >> i think it's dramatic impact, and that is really the act of militarism, what they are doing. >> chernobyl is close to the belarusian border. the russian army used this road as one of its main routes to attack ukraine's capital. the interior minister says his country needs more weapons to defend this border. the border between freedom and oppression, we are ready to fight for it, he says. and ukrainians fear they may have to fight for it again soon, as russian president vladimir putin replenishes his forces, continuing to put the safety of europe at risk. fred pleitgen at the chernobyl nuclear power plant. >> incredible reporting from fred. >>> we're going to bring in frederick leighton, who is a military analyst. i want to begin and back up to the attack on the train sta

could power it since chernobyl has been out of operation since 1986 when it blew up.red that question. how could chernobyl be powering anything, since it doesn't work, and now he never will because he is done talking. malcolm nance of msnbc, ladies and gentlemen, is taking the fight to putin. >> the more i saw of the war going on, the more i thought i'm done talking. it's time to take action here. so about a month ago, i joined the international legion here in ukraine, and i am here to help this country, and there are people here like me or are here to something about it. >> tucker: you can make fun of him if you want. malcolm nance talking with his eyes closed, with his gloves and little gone. supposedly in ukraine. but look at it another way, it's kind of impressive. a lot of people are calling for war with russia, none of them want to fight that war. malcolm nance has decided to be the exception to that role, kind of like when elvis joined the army, it is inspirational, but not malcolm nance we are mad at, we want to know his backup is. where is joy reid? where is

now, the interior minister took us to chernobyl, and what we found was troubling.he russians imprisoned the security staff inside of the plant's own bombshell, the interior minister told us, no natural light, no fresh air, and no communications. so the russians kept 169 ukrainians here prisoner when they held the place, and when the russians left, they looted and ransacked the place. among the prisoners national guardsmen, and soldiers. now the interior minister tells me they have taken them prisoner to russia, and they don't know how they are doing. he said that when he arrived here, he realized no good russians, and it is a story associated with victims the an blood and violence. what we are seeing here is outrageous behavior at a nuclear facility. while the technical staff were working, the russian troops were lax with safety. and while we were here, the areas they were working, the doci meters went off. they went to the forest, and brought in the radiation on their shoes. only this floor is radioactive, but elsewhere is okay. it is increased here, because they

sarah rainsford, bbc news, chernobyl. where injust over two weeks, filipinos will vote for their next president. the current frontrunner is bongbong marcos, the son of the country's late dictator ferdinand marcos — whose corrupt and autocratic rule led to him being deposed in popular revolt in 1986. marcoer says he will make the country "rise again" but has been criticised for avoiding serious scrutiny about his father's legacy during election campaigning. howard johnson reports from manila. activists and students out in force during a public holiday to commemorate the popular uprising that ousted late philippine dictator ferdinand marcos. mr marcos ruled the country for two decades, much of it under martial law. his regime rigged elections, tortured and killed political opponents and plundered an estimated $10 billion. more than 30 years on, his son bongbong marcos is on the verge to returning the family to power. he's currently the front—runner in opinion polls, with his nearest rival leni robredo more than 30 percentag

the accident at the chernobyl nuclear power plant is the largest man-made disaster , and both in terms of the number of victims and economic losses, radiation knows no borders. it is an invisible enemy and only time can overcome it. for today , four nuclear power plants are operating in ukraine for 2 months. the ukrainian people and the armed forces of ukraine they are putting up heroic resistance to the russian invasion, they are defending the world from a new ecological disaster, the world needs new achievements and discoveries, not new tragedies, the world needs peace in ukraine, iryna kovaliy. time of news on the tv channel espresso on the anniversary of the chernobyl disaster, the director general of the international atomic energy agency, rafael grossi, will visit the chernobyl nuclear power plant, he will lead the first full-scale mission of experts on security, protection and guarantees in ukraine at the chernobyl nuclear power plant , they will conduct a radiological assessment and restore the guarantee monitoring system. looting it due to shelling by the occupiers in donetsk

and it's not only in chernobyl.so fired rockets at europe's largest nuclear power plant near zaporizhzhia in southern ukraine and are now occupying it. ukraine's energy minister tells me the international community must step in. >> i think it's dramatically impact, and that is really the act of nuclear terrorism, what they are doing. >> chernobyl is close to the belarusian border. the russian army used this road as one of its main routes to attack ukraine's capital. the interior minister says his country needs more weapons to defend the border. today the border between totalitarianism and democracy passes behind our backs, he says. the border between freedom and oppression. we are ready to fight for it. and the ukrainians fear they may have to fight here again soon, as russian president vladimir putin replenishes his forces, continuing to put this nation and nuclear safety in europe at risk. >> and jake, when i kept talking to the energy minister, he told he believes it is absolutely crazy that the russian military

you asked about chernobyl. we have seen indications that some russian forces are departing and the chernobyl plant facility. again we gather at they are leading to the north to go back towards belarus. again indications are not completely clear at this time. i think you are asking is that part of it or something separate? we would assess at this early stage it is a piece of this larger effort to resupply and not necessarily done because of health hazards or some sort of emergency or crisis. that would be our assessment and i honestly don't have an update or you on the convoy. i don't have anything for you on that. i don't even know if it still exists at this point. it's been now so long. they never, ever accomplish their mission. they never really provided a supply of any value to russian forces that were assembling around kyiv. it never really came to their aid. ukranians put a stop to that convoy pretty quickly. by being very nimble in knocking out bridges and hitting lead vehicles and stopping their movement

chernobyl is exactly a place which donstrates what the nuclear industry accident could be. it is huge areas of land which are continued to be polluted from 1986. it was a huge impact for people who lived there. you had hundreds of thousands who had to flee. it was an amazing cost most of built the soviet union which started -- only recently got safe containment of the reactor which is the international community paid ove $2 billion. yes, the worst of this is particularly kind of agree demonstration the russians a coming -- rusan armcame and occupied chernobyl power plant. a cyber we d't have it operating nuclear reactors, so it is less of a risk on that scale but we have spent nuclear el which could also be destroyed and have a release of the materials in the air. but of course, zaporizhzhia where you have actors in operation and they continue to work now, it is far more dangerous situation also because it was directly attacked. i have to remind that this concern was in place back in 2014 when the war started in ukraine and it was just a couple hundred kilometers away and t

ukrainian authorities say russian soldiers have left the chernobyl nuker power plant after suffering acute radiation sickness >> we have seen a spike in radiation and it's very likely due to the transport of heavy military equipment, so that gives you an indication that these troops do not know what they're doing and behaving recklessly. >> reporter: employees inside the plant had worked at gunpoint, ukrainian authorities say after russian forces seized control five weeks ago the agency in charge of the country's nuclear power stations now says the russian soldiers fled toward ukraine's border with belarus leaving in phases starting tuesday. it also claims the russians had dug trenches in the red forest long considered chernobyl's most polluted area where thousands of plain trees turned red during the 1986 nuclear disaster and also took ukrainian national guardsmen with them as prisoners. nbc news can't independently verify those claims the kremlin has not commented. but earlier this week said it was scaling back military action in the area to focus elsewhere. >> they clearly didn't

and it's not only in chernobyl.also fired rockets at europe's largest nuclear power plant near zap ait's yeah and are now occupying it. ukraine's energy minister says the international community must step in. >> i think it's dramatically impacting. that's really the act of nuclear tea tearism, what they're doing. >> the russian army used this road as one of its main routes to attack ukraine's capital. the interior minister says his country needs more weapons to defend this border. today, the border between totalitarianism and democracy passes behind our backs, he says. the border between freedom and oppression. we are ready to fight for it. the ukrainians fear they may have to fight here again soon. as russian president vladimir putin replenishes his forces, continuing to put this nation and nuclear safety in europe at risk. and erin, energy minister told me he thinks it's just absolutely crazy that they would have dug trenches and fighting positions inside the red forest. he said if there were forces out there who

this morning russian troops left the heavily contaminated chernobyl nuclear site after handing control back to ukraine. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy warned that russian withdrawals from the north and the center of the country were a tactic to build up forces for attacks elsewhere. and ukraine says russian forces blocked a convey of 45 buses attempting to evacuate people from the besieged port city of mariupol. bradley blackburn is in new york with all the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. about 100,000 people are still trapped in mariupol. evacuations have slowed to a crawl. ukraine's government says at this point just a few hundred people at a time are able to escape in private cars. and russian attacks on the city aren't letting up. russia's assault on the port city of mariupol continued thursday. ukraine's deputy prime minister says russian forces seized 14 tons of food and medical supplies and prevented residents from fleeing the violence. today a team from the international committee of the red cross will try to enter the city with humanitarian aid and he

that now in the 1st weeks of the invasion, russia seized control of the nuclear power plants at chernobyl. the site of the world's worst nuclear accident. it was the 1st time that soldiers have occupied and nuclear power plants as part of war weeks after moscow's forces. left reports continue to merge off the reckless and extremely dangerous actions they took there . this is one of the most radioactive places in the world. yet the more than a month, russian soldiers lived here, digging deep into the contaminated soil of the chernobyl exclusions own ukrainian officials say that bunking down in the zone, so called red forest manned up costing some of the troops there lives. horrible militia, there are 3 little corporal in the red forest where russians dug trenches, ally, they lived here, only breathed in dust. here, usual cooked their food, and set fire's hair, a hoodie. look for a while when the thought so gross was burnt, and they inhaled burnt substances you with the holy, which hang a 3rd of course it will damage their healthily fixer. it will kill some of them slowly for thug legs, and

the world's most dangerous route, sealed under giant concrete hood, the chernobyl disaster site is once again the focus of attention. now that russian occupation troops have withdrawn the head of the international atomic energy authority can assess its condition. the 1st ready must go to the operator to these people here because they carried on their work. in spite of all the difficulties, despite of distress, in spite of the fact that they could not be working normally, they continue working as if nothing had happened. so they get the sedation stable, so to speak. and these, in this sense, the worst at was of course about the 1st task is replacing equipment that was destroyed or stolen. just the 1st one, you will have to push on a good kimber started use. kim's cousin wasn't my vehicle, they weren't admitted to the critical parts of the structure meal, but they left a lot of chaos and they stole equipment from us. apple computers is just unusual. wrong if and if i knew for sure years. 36 years ago this nuclear block behind me exploded. it was the worst nuclear accident in human history

and russia's capture of the chernobyl nuclear power plant at the start of the invasion had the world fearing another nuclear disaster just weeks after the soldiers retreated. more dangerous actions may have been taken there. we will explain and the biggest tournament in tennis band russia and belarusian players over the war in ukraine. organizers saying the move is in response to unjustified military aggression from russia. i am brent goff, to our viewers watching on pbs and the united states and all of you around the world, welcome. we start our covers tonight with that dire situation in the last ukrainian holdout in the besieged ukrainian port city of variable -- mario paul. -- mariupol. troops hold up in mariupol have defied a russian ever to surrender. -- order to surrender. >> on ukraine's eastern front, soldiers begin the fight ahead. russia has relaunched its offensive, hoping to take full control of the donbass region. the fight may be almost over. this is our appeal to the world. this could be the last appeal of our lives. we are may be facing our last days if not hours. the

and of course chernobyl was the scene of the 1986 world's worst nuclear disaster. and that area's highly radioactive. so many of them had fallen ill with radioactivity poisoning. that kind of stuff. that is one reason why perhaps they left. we do know when the russians took over there was a small team on site which was there for safety reasons. one thing the nuclear reactor which is encased in cement as well as the nuclear fuel rods, they'd been worked to the point of exhaustion. so clearly now they are the ones who will have some relief. they're allowed to get in. and the ukrainians they say at least are back in control. >> john vause is our international anchor on cnn international and he will be here leading our coverage in just under an hour. john, we'll see you in a little bit. thank you very much. we really appreciate it. now i want to get to irpin in the outskirts of kyiv, which has been a key front line in holding back russian troops from getting into the capital. but it has paid a really heavy price. about half the city's been destroyed and russian shells