“Russian soldiers who captured the Chernobyl nuclear power plants drove on their armored vehicles without radiation protection through a highly toxic zone called” Red Forest “, raising the clouds of radioactive dust, transfers Reuters with reference to the words of workers at the scene.
According to them, soldiers in the column did not use any anti-cancellation funds. The second employee of the station said that it was “suicide” for soldiers, because the radioactive dust, which they breathed, could cause internal irradiation in their bodies.
“A large column of military equipment drove on the road immediately behind our object, and this road passes by the” Red Forest “. The convoy raised a big dust post. Many radiation safety sensors showed excess of the level,” he said.
Acting Director General of the Chernobyl NPP Valery Seid at that time was not at this station and was not a witness to how the Russian column went through the “Red Forest”, but he said that the Witnesses told him that the Russian military cars went everywhere around Alienation zones and could go through it.
One of the employees said he was talking to some ordinary Russian soldiers at the factory.
“When they were asked if they were about the 1986 catastrophe, about the explosion of the fourth block of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, they had no idea. They had no idea what object they were. We talked with ordinary soldiers. Everything we heard From them, it was: “This is a critical infrastructure.” That’s all, “said the man.