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Aftermath. >> the home of 50,000 people, plant workers and their families is nowei deserted. helicopters pass overhead to measure the radio activity which is several hundred times more than normalun but millions of times less than it was in the days after the accident. also deserted is the town of chernobyl, and farm villages in the surrounding area several hundred square miles. two years ago, this was a thick forest of pine trees. now, only one tree stands. but this tree too is dying. >> now, that thick forest of pine trees came to be called the red forest because of all of the reddish color ...

Military activity and then after those talks he tried to portray that as some kind of goodwill gesture for future talks. like clearly this is why the u.s. and nato officials are all saying they'll judge the russians by their actions, because clearly -- >> you can't trust their words. in the beginning of the war we had the incident that happened in zaporizhzhia and also this concern about chernobyl. i understand you're getting some new information about the chernobyl nuclear power plant. >> what we're hearing from the ukrainian side especially is that chernobyl is now back under ukrainian contr...

But their forces frequently come under fire, the chief tells me. "just yesterday our officers, who were searching for dead bodies, they were shot at with mortars," he says. "they had to lay under the bridge and wait for it to stop." but the grim task of finding and taking out the many dead continues. more than two dozen on this day alone. some have been laying in the streets for weeks and can only now be removed. when russian forces invaded ukraine, they quickly advanced on the capital kyiv all the way to irpin. here the ukrainians stood and fought back. vladimir putin's army controlled large ...

Of radiation. the entire forest was also boulders and buried. when nbc news returned to chernobyl on the 20th anniversary of the disaster, vegetation there was still highly radioactive. >> while radiation levels have returned to normal in some parts of the 18 mile safety zone around and now close reactor, there is still plenty off limits. the radiation varies wildly. here it is elevated, but not too high. if i walk over here just a couple of feet and put this down, it jumps ten times. part of the reason is this moss concentrates radiation. 20 years after the nuclear catastrophe, chernobyl is s...

The contaminated red forest remains unclear. the head of the u.n.'s nuclear watchdog says what's happening around ukraine's nuclear plant is dangerous, uncharted territory. raphael grossy just came back from a trip to russia and ukraine. cnn asked him what condition those nuclear plants are in. >> the power plants, reactors are operating as if we were in peacetime but we're not in peacetime, and this creates a number of question marks and situations that require attention. as you were saying just return an hour ago return from ukraine where i have been talking to my ukrainian counter parts on ...