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Cnn's fred pleitgen is there. >> reporter: simply getting to the chernobyl exclusion zone is a treacherous journey. many streets and bridges destroyed, we had to go off road, crossing rivers on pontoon bridges. finally, we reached the confinement dome of the power plant that blew up in 1986, the worst nuclear accident ever. russian troops invaded this area on the very first day of their war against ukraine and took chernobyl without much of a fight. now that the russians have left, ukraine's interior minister took us to chernobyl. and what we found was troubling. the russians imprisoned the se...

Destroyed, we had to go off-road, crossing rivers on pontoon bridges. finally, we reached the confinement dome of the power plant that wblew up in 1986, th worst nuclear accident ever. russian troops invaded this area on the very first day of their war against ukraine and took chernobyl without much of a fight. now that the russians have left, ukraine's interior minister took us to chernobyl and what we found was troubling. the russians imprisoned the security staff inside the plant's own bomb shelter, they tell us. no natural light, no fresh air, no communications. so the russians kept 169 uk...

But also their own soldiers were subjected to extremely high levels of radiation and they dug themselves in in some of the most contaminated areas in the entire world. it certainly seemed like something that was really, really a bad sight to see. here's what we witnessed. simply getting to the chernobyl exclusion zone is a treacherous journey. many streets and bridges destroyed, we had to go off road, crossing rivers on pontoon bridges. finally, we reached the confinement dome of the power plant that blew up in 1986, the worst nuclear accident ever. russian troops invaded this area on the very...

Safety. there are credible fears many of the russian soldiers may have been exposed to dangerous levels of radiation, possibly without knowing it. cnn's fred pleitgen traveled there for this exclusive report. >> reporter: simply getting to the chernobyl exclusion zone is a treacherous journey. many streets and bridges destroyed. we had to go off road, crossing rivers on pontoon bridges. finally, we reach the confinement dome of the power plant that blew up in 1986. the worst nuclear accident ever. russian troops invaded this area on the very first day of their war against ukraine, and took che...

That. now i want to turn to the situation at the chernobyl nuclear power plant. cnn was given exclusive access to the plant for the first time since it came back into ukrainian control. and what we found is really concerning. here's cnn's frederick pleitgen with more. hi there, don. you know, the ukrainians from the beginning when the russians took over the chernobyl nuclear power plant, they said they were absolutely concerned about what those forces were doing there. when we got there there were two things that really crystallized. on the one hand the russians treated badly but it also s...