Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
On 9 March 2022, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba said that the power supply of the Chernobyl NPP was damaged, it had lost power, and the diesel generator backup systems only had enough fuel to support cooling operations for 48 hours, so there was a danger of radiation leaks. [25]
On 24 February 2022, Russian forces captured the plant. [3] [4] The resulting activity reportedly led to a 20-fold increase of detected radiation levels in the area due to disturbance of contaminated soil. [5] On 9 March 2022, there was a power cut at the plant itself. No radiation leaks were reported as of 9 March 2022.
Before the invasion, Ukraine's 1st Tank Brigade, numbering 2,000 men, was headquartered at a base in Honcharivske, which was struck by Russian missiles early in the morning of 24 February 2022. Hours into the war, an estimated 30,000 Russian troops began moving towards the city of Chernihiv, crossing the Ukrainian border from three directions.
Russian and Ukrainian forces waged a battle at the site of the nuclear facility on Thursday, with Russia ultimately prevailing, and prompting questions about the safety of the plant, which is in ...
According to Ukrainian authorities, Russian forces have moved into the area surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine, where the world’s worst nuclear disaster took place in 1986 ...
U.S. officials think classified U.S. documents about Ukraine's war effort that appeared on-line are likely real and the result of a leak, but that some of the documents may have been altered ...
The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was the site of fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces during the Battle of Chernobyl on 24 February 2022, as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [15] Russian forces reportedly captured the plant the same day. [19]
The northern Ukraine campaign was a theater of operation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.It involved attacks by Russia across the Russo-Ukrainian and Belarusian–Ukrainian borders, beginning on 24 February 2022, for control of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, and the surrounding areas of Kyiv Oblast and northern regions Zhytomyr Oblast, Sumy Oblast, and Chernihiv Oblast.