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Head of Ukrainian state agency provides VOA with photos he says he took on April 5

Drone footage reportedly from Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone showed what appeared to be the trenches dug by Russian soldiers in the radioactive soil surrounding the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster.

The footage, which has been geolocated, shows mounds of disturbed earth and fortifications dug on the outskirts of the Red Forest, just a few miles west of the Chernobyl plant.

According to workers at the nuclear plant, those russian troops came rolling in right through the red forest. two workers told reuters that they watched a convoy of russian military vehicles drive in, on an abandoned road, right through the red forest, kicking up a big column of radio active dust, and setting off multiple radiation safetytt sensors. the workers called the russian movements suicidal because the dust the russian soldiers inhaled was likely to cause internal radiation to the bodies, none of the russian troops wore protective gear during the weeks that they spent at the plant with...

Apparently, according to the agency, the russian soldiers were digging in, and putting fortifications and trenches in what is known as the red forest. this is inside the exclusion zone, the area around chernobyl after the worst nuclear accident after its kind in history that saw the worst fall out from the reactors and if they were in that area, experts believe they could have been exposed to high levels of radiation. the ajen say cy saying the last 24 hours or so, the russian soldiers were panicked. they have been leaving over the last 24 hours and that area is now under ukrainian control, we...