We’re looking at the Chernobyl liquidators - the miners, pilots, divers, engineers, and young conscripts who became the human ...

KIEV, Ukraine — Sergey Krasilnikov, 65, was one of about 800,000 soldiers, firefighters, engineers, miners, farmers and volunteers tasked with taking part in the Chernobyl cleanup operation after the ...

In Ukraine, participants in the liquidation of the consequences of the disaster at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant are honored - people who were the first to protect the country and the world from ...

KIEV, Ukraine -- As Ukraine and Belarus on Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident with solemn words and an angry protest, some of the men who were sent to the site in ...

Memorial services were held in Ukraine and elsewhere on April 26 to mark the 37th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. 1 Ukrainian Ecology Minister Ruslan Strilets (center, wearing ...

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