Ukrainian defenders are dug in north of Kyiv, where they fear Russia and Belarus may launch another play for the capital.
The No. 4 reactor, protected by a structure called the New Safe Confinement, at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26, 2022, the 36th anniversary of the disaster there.
Yahoo News spent time with Andrii , the commander of a Ukrainian reconnaissance team operating in the zone. The soldiers in Andrii’s unit have been playing a cat-and-mouse game with opposing Russian and Belarusian special forces infiltrators in the desolate environment surrounding the infamous nuclear power plant.The nuclear contamination in the zone has died down in the decades since the disaster, but pockets of intense radiation remain.
These Iranian-supplied drones are small, and fly low and slow, making them a challenge for traditional radar to detect. Old-fashioned visual detection from a recon team, such as Andrii’s, is often the first warning Kyiv will get of an incoming swarm of these cheap but deadly weapons. The question of Belarus's becoming a party to Russia’s war is as old as the war itself. In a livestreamed address to a meeting of the G7 on Oct. 11, Zelensky appealed for an internal monitoring mission “to monitor the security situation” on the border.
As for the Russians, Andrii believes they’ve learned the lesson of their previous aborted attempt to seize Kyiv.
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