An advisor to the Ukrainian presidential office said that Russian troops captured Chernobyl's former nuclear power after heavy fighting.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an aide to the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, said that Ukrainian troops fought with Russian forces who invaded the region from Belarus.
The attack came as part of a full Russian invasion of Ukraine, the biggest on a European nation since World War II, with Russian forces claiming to have destroyed more than 70 military targets and 11 airfields. Russian forces have reportedly captured the airport on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital.
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Large parts of the Chernobyl exclusion zone have been closed off since the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded in 1986.
Two huge explosions blew off the reactor's 2,000-ton lid, covering the surrounding area with nuclear waste. The area was deemed uninhabitable by humans for the next 24,000 years.
Russian occupation forces are trying to take over the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Zelenskyy wrote that our defenders are giving their lives so that the 1986 tragedy won't happen again.
An advisor to the Ukrainian interior ministry warned that fighting around the power plant could cause the spread of dangerous radioactive material across Europe.
The National Guardsmen, who guard the collectors of unsafe nuclear radioactive waste, are fighting hard, according to an advisor and former deputy minister at the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
If the nuclear waste storage facility is destroyed, the radioactive dust may cover the territories of Ukraine, Belarus and the EU countries.
The site is close to the northern border with Russia's ally Belarus and sits on the most direct route between it and Kyiv.
There is a pontoon bridge at the Pripyat river just 14 miles north of the Chernobyl plant.
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