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Dozens of Russian troops ‘fall ill with radiation poisoning’ at Chernobyl
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However, an employee at the Ukrainian state agency overseeing the exclusion zone said ‘irradiated’ Russian soldiers were being whisked by the bus load to a clinic in Gomel for treatment.
Yaroslav Yemelianenko wrote on Facebook: ‘Another batch of Russian irradiated terrorists who seized the Chernobyl zone was brought to the Belarusian Radiation Medicine Center in Gomel today.
‘Have you dug trenches in the Red Forest, bitches? Now live with it for the rest of your short life.
‘There are rules for dealing with this area. They are mandatory because radiation is physics – it works without regard to status or shoulder straps.
‘With minimal intelligence in command or soldiers, these consequences could have been avoided.’
The Red Forest is located in the zone of alienation
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this area received the highest doses of radiation from the Chernobyl accident
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The trees died from this radiation. The explosion and fire at the Chernobyl No. 4 reactor contaminated the soil, water and atmosphere with radioactive material equivalent to that of 20 times the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.[4]
In the post-disaster cleanup operations, a majority of the pine trees were bulldozed and buried in trenches by the "liquidators". The trenches were then covered with a thick carpet of sand and planted with pine saplings.[5] Many fear that as the trees decay, radioactive contaminants will leach into the ground water. People have evacuated the contaminated zone around the Red Forest.
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