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Russian troops start leaving Chernobyl, Ukraine nuclear agency says
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A man walks past a shelter covering the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, April 15, 2021. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)
KYIV — Russian troops who seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on February 24 begin leaving the station and other exclusion zones, Ukraine’s state nuclear company Energoatom says.
“This morning, the invaders announced their intentions to leave the Chernobyl nuclear power plant,” Energoatom says on Telegram.
Russian troops “marched in two columns towards the Ukrainian border with Belarus” and a “small number” of Russian forces remain in the station, it says.
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