Russian troops enter Chornobyl NPP from Belarus – Gerashchenko

16:41, 24.02.2022 1 min read

Advisor to Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko said that Russian troops from the territory of Belarus entered the zone of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant (NPP).

"Important information about the Russian invasion! The troops of the invaders from the territory of Belarus entered the zone of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. The National Guardsmen guarding the storage of unsafe radioactive waste are putting up stubborn resistance," he wrote on his Telegram channel.

Gerashchenko stressed that "if a nuclear waste storage facility is destroyed as a result of enemy artillery strikes, then radioactive dust can cover the territories of Ukraine, Belarus and the EU countries!"