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Trenches dug by the Russian military are seen in an area with high levels of radiation called the Red Forest, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant ...

Indeed, such was the Russians’ ignorance that when the siege of Kyiv began faltering in late March 2022, they dug defensive ...

The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic wasteland. After the infamous 1986 meltdown of a Soviet nuclear reactor, around 1,000 square miles in northern ...

A few years ago, on one of her first visits to Chernobyl, Katherine Raines went to the Red Forest, a radioactive cemetery of pine trees scorched by the nuclear accident in 1986. She was curious to see ...