A significant number of Russian troops occupying the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine have been withdrawn.
Ukrainian state-owned nuclear power plant operator Energoatom said in a statement on the 31st local time that Russian troops had withdrawn from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, according to Reuters.
Energoatom said, “The invaders who occupied the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and other facilities within the restricted access zone set off towards the border with the second column and withdrew from the village of Slautik near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.”
However, it is not clear whether the Russian military has completely withdrawn from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant or whether some troops remain.
Earlier, the US Department of Defense announced that Russian troops had begun withdrawing from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant the day before.
Some argue that the Russian troops stationed at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant did not simply withdrew, but that some troops retreated after being exposed to radiation.
Ukrainian local media reported that seven buses carrying radiation-exposed Russian soldiers arrived at a Belarusian hospital.
It is said that the Russian military dug a trench in the ‘Red Forest’ near the nuclear power plant. The Red Forest is an area where pine trees exposed to radiation died after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion in 1986. More than 5,000 times.
