Ukraine says Russian forces who occupied the former Chernobyl nuclear plant stole radioactive substances from research laboratories that could potentially kill them.<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s State Agency for Managing the Exclusion Zone said on Facebook that Russian troops entered a storage area of the Ecocentre research base and stole 133 highly radioactive substances.<\/p>\n
“Even a small part of this activity is deadly if handled unprofessionally,” the agency said, adding “the location of the stolen substances is currently unknown.”<\/p>\n
The BBC has not been able to confirm this independently.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week Ukraine’s energy minister German Gulashchenko said Russian soldiers exposed themselves to a “shocking” amount of nuclear radiation, saying some of them may have less than a year to live.<\/p>\n
“They dug bare soil contaminated with radiation, collected radioactive sand in bags for fortification, breathed this dust,” Gulashchenko said on Facebook on Friday after visiting the exclusion zone.<\/p>\n
The BBC’s Yogita Limaye was among the first journalists to look inside the former nuclear power plant since the Russians left<\/p>\n
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