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Reporter’s notebook: Inside Ukraine’s nuclear plants at war
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Reporter’s notebook: Inside Ukraine’s nuclear plants at war

by Dominic Culverwell

Walking around a nuclear power plant in north-western Ukraine, it feels like there are as many soldiers as there are plant workers. The guns are an unnerving sight, but not unexpected — the border with Belarus is just 65 kilometers away. At the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, employees at the Rivne nuclear power plant prepared for occupation, as Russian troops entering from Belarus swiftly captured the Chornobyl plant. Then, days later, the Russians did something even more egregious — th

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Ukraine war latest: Three Russian ships, MiG-31 aircraft damaged in major overnight strikes on Crimea

Key developments on April 25-26: * Three Russian ships, MiG-31 aircraft damaged in major overnight strikes on Crimea, SBU reports * Ukrainian drones strike Russia's Yaroslavl oil refinery, General Staff says amid latest mass attack inside Russia * US intercepts Iranian 'shadow fleet' vessel Sevan in Arabian Sea, US Central Command says * Germany believes Russia responsible for global cyber campaign on Signal, WhatsApp, media reports Ukrainian forces struck three Russian ships, a fighter je

News from occupied Ukraine: FSB officers killed in Donetsk, 75% of new property buyers in Mariupol come from Russia, report says

This weekly update from the Kyiv Independent aims to shed light on the situation facing Ukrainians living under Russian occupation and the ever-tightening control of information imposed by the Kremlin. This week, the Kyiv Independent published a long-read investigation into the endangering of pro-Ukrainian partisans and activists on Russia-occupied territories on the part of the Yellow Ribbon organization and their backers. Read it here. Key news as of April 26: * 12 Russian FSB officers kil

On the 40 year anniversary, here are 5 books to better understand Chornobyl nuclear disaster

On April 26, 1986, the explosion at Reactor No. 4 of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant forever changed the lives of millions in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. Although Communist authorities initially tried to suppress news of the disaster even within the Soviet Union, radioactive fallout was soon thereafter detected by neighboring European countries, and the entire world took notice. The catastrophe became a critical turning point, exposing the flaws in the Soviet system and hastening the Soviet

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