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The IAEA expects to send assistance and a support mission to Chernobyl in upcoming days, while some experts doubt claims that Russian forces fled as a result of radiation sickness.
"Russia behaved irresponsibly in Chernobyl on all accounts, from not allowing personnel of the station to perform their functions to digging trenches in the contaminated areas," Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Friday.
'Irradiated' Russian troops are being withdrawn from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone due to illness and repositioned in Belarus.
The Ukrainian government said Russian forces blocked 45 buses that had been sent to evacuate civilians from the besieged port city of Mariupol, and only 631 people were able to get out of the city in private cars.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Friday that his country will be sending armored Bushmaster vehicles to Ukraine to help in its war against Russia.