Ukrainians gathered on Saturday to honour the victims and clean-up crews of the biggest nuclear disaster in history, Chernobyl, during a ceremony held in the northern town of Prypyat. Prypyat, now a ...

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My dad turned 9 years old on the day of the Chernobyl disaster. Two years later, his father was sent to the city to clean up the contaminated area and manage the consequences of the catastrophe. He ...

MINSK, 26 April (BelTA) – A catastrophe occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant 39 years ago, on 26 April 1986. Its consequences have affected many countries across Europe one way or another but ...