Russian troops are fighting Ukrainians in the town of Chernobyl this afternoon – a town about 60 miles away from the capital of Kiev. If storage facilities holding nuclear waste are damaged, a radiation fallout cloud could cover many European countries.
“If storage facilities are destroyed, the radioactive cloud could cover Ukraine, Belarus and the EU,’ said the Ukrainian adviser for interior affairs Anton Gerashchenko.
Troops entered the Chernobyl exclusion zone at around 3pm this afternoon local time, and since this announcement an adviser to Ukrainian President Zelensky warned that the nuclear storage ‘may’ have been hit. If that is the case, an ‘ecological disaster’ would ensue. Read more
Russia troops attacking CHERNOBYL could set off radiation cloud across Europe, Ukraine warns as bomb hits ship owned by NATO-member Turkey in Black Sea and Kiev sends citizens to shelters ahead of 'imminent' bombinghttps://t.co/3jNmrmMjje pic.twitter.com/rLKMgGsS6u
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Putin warning the west: “If other countries attempt to create threats for Russia, they will be met with consequences that you have never experienced in your history"
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My God this is hell on earth #RussiaInvasion#RussiaUkraineConflict pic.twitter.com/AZEY6tJol0
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Boris Johnson says that “our worst fears have come true” with the invasion of Ukraine, that President Putin had invaded “without provocation and without any credible excuse” and that the UK and the world “can not and will not just look away”https://t.co/smr42XzFw0 pic.twitter.com/1apORcSiEw
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