Russian troops are attempting to seize the sealed off Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Pripyat, according to the president of Ukraine.

Russia is trying to seize the area, and media are reporting that fighting has broken out there. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus is a massive steel and concrete structure that protects the highly radioactive nuclear reactor that melted down in 1986.

Russian occupation forces are trying to take over the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Zelensky said that our defenders are giving their lives so that the tragedy of 1986 won't happen again.

If the invaders hit the sarcophagus, the former deputy minister and current advisor to Ukraine's interior ministry warned in a Facebook post.

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Hours after Putin announced a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, this all happened. Moscow has begun military operations in Ukraine that include bombardments of cities, attacks on military bases, and fighting with Ukrainian soldiers.

Things are looking bleak. This war threatens the lives of millions of innocent Ukrainian citizens, and it also throws the entire arena into turmoil.

Things might get very ugly very quickly with the threat of nuclear fallout from Chernobyl rearing its head.

Ukrainian scientists are worried that the Russian invasion will result in lost research.

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