![]() ![]() Zelenskyy’s office published photos of him laying flowers at two Kyiv memorials to Chernobyl victims and observing a minute’s silence. “We must do everything to give no chance to the terrorist state to use nuclear power facilities to blackmail Ukraine and the entire world,” Zelenskyy said in his Telegram post. The more recent 2011 Fukushima disaster is still causing a growing number of problems worldwide (Fukushima Radiation). The plant has six reactors, all of which have been shut down over the past year. On Tuesday, Ukrainian officials reported that heavy Russian artillery fire hit cities on the western bank of the Dnieper River just across from the plant. Ukrainian officials have repeatedly accused Russia of using the plant as a base for firing on nearby Ukrainian-held territory. Russian forces have also been stationed at southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Europe’s largest and one of the 10 biggest in the world, since capturing the site early in the war. But he cautioned that future moves from Moscow could endanger global nuclear safety. Zelenskyy said Kyiv has since then reestablished prewar security measures and scientific activities within the zone. Ukraine farmers surrounded by risks, from mines to logistics Dozens of people were killed in the immediate aftermath of the disaster while the long-term death toll from radiation poisoning is unknown. On April 26, 1986, an explosion and fire at the plant caused radioactive fallout to begin spewing into the atmosphere. “Last year, the occupier not only seized the (Chernobyl) nuclear power plant, but also endangered the entire world again,” Zelenskyy said in a Telegram post in English. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used the day to repeat his warnings about the potential threat of a new atomic catastrophe in Ukraine amid the war with Russia, drawing a parallel between the Chernobyl accident in 1986 to Moscow’s brief seizure of that plant and its radiation-contaminated exclusion zone following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) - Workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on Wednesday marked the 37th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster amid an ongoing war and nuclear threats, somberly laying flowers at a monument for victims.
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