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This is beyond just 'incompetence'.... Russian Troops Suffer ‘Acute Radiation Sickness’ After Digging Chernobyl Trenches April 1, 2022 12:54 pm RL

Several hundred Russian soldiers were forced to hastily withdraw from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine after suffering “acute radiation sickness” from contaminated soil, according to Ukrainian officials.

The troops, who dug trenches in a contaminated Red Forest near the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history, are now reportedly being treated in a special medical facility in Gomel, Belarus. The forest is so named because thousands of pine trees turned red during the 1986 nuclear disaster. The area is considered so highly toxic that not even highly specialized Chernobyl workers are allowed to enter the zone.

Energoatom, the Ukrainian agency in charge of the country’s nuclear power stations, said the Russian soldiers had panicked and fled.

“It has been confirmed that the occupiers who seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and other facilities in the Exclusion Zone set off in two columns towards Ukraine’s border with Belarus. The occupiers announced their intentions to leave the Chernobyl nuclear power plant this morning to the Ukrainian personnel of the station,” the agency said in a statement on Telegram, adding that a small number of Russians still remained at the facility.

The agency said it had also confirmed reports of Russian forces digging trenches in the Red Forest, “the most polluted in the entire exclusion zone.”

“Not surprisingly, the occupiers received significant doses of radiation and panicked at the first sign of illness. And it showed up very quickly.”

  • Poor sods by Pebble 2022-04-01 14:57:00
    • The soldiers probably had no idea by podrock 2022-04-01 13:21:24
      • I could certainly believe that some of the grunts might not understand the dangers... by RL 2022-04-01 15:07:46
        • It’s neither, they just don’t care by Pebble 2022-04-01 21:58:05
      • Russian soldier dies from radiation poisoning in Chernobyl by RL 2022-04-01 13:07:53

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