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Translation: we store nuclear waste. _ if we'd lost power, it would have been catastrophic. radioactive material could have been released. i wasn't really worried for my life, i was scared of what would happen if i wasn't here. it's not possible for us to go any further because it could be risky but, if you walk down here, in that direction is an area of very high levels of contamination known as the red forest. and drone video has now come out which officials here have seen and they've confirmed to us the russian soldiers not only built trenches there, but they appear to have stayed there as ...

Into the forest, you're signing your death certificate. >> don't touch the ground. >> yeah. what really is incredibly interesting, the people who work there don't go into the forests. it's maddening even the troops themselves would take it upon themselves to commit suicide. the commander could say if you don't dig these ditches, then, hey, i'll shoot you. you take the bullet or slow death. that's what it will come to. that's what we have been told with our warnings to never go into the red forest. you don't do it. >> we are so grateful for the help that you gave us. your heart is still there. ...

Exclusion zone around chernobyl. what do we know about this and the troops' exposure to radiation? >> reporter: this is really a stunning development. this is an area around the chernobyl nuclear power plant known as the red forest, an area so toxic that even people who work at the chernobyl power plant aren't even allowed to go into this area, and the ukrainian officials now say that they have drone footage of russian soldiers that have dug tren nchs that very dirt and the likelihood of the soldiers and the heavy armor that was going through that area is very likely to have been highly contam...

After five weeks of occupation, Russian troops retreated from Chernobyl suffering from radiation poisoning. What happened?

Is extraordinary, one of the areas you have been is chernobyl, the region around chernobyl. we heard the russian troops literally dug in the forest there, dug into the ground in the forests. explain why that is such an epically bad idea. >> i have been to chernobyl twice. i wanted to take people there for a tourism business i'm going to be starting. chernobyl, you have guys that specifically tell you, they point to the forest. do not go to the forest. this is where you can take photos, this is where you shouldn't take photos. you have devices to assess radiation levels. you can't even go throu...