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Russian troops handed control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant back to the Ukrainians and left the heavily contaminated site early Friday, more than a month after taking it over, Ukrainian authorities said, as fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other fronts. Ukraine’s state power company, Energoatom, said the pullout at Chernobyl came after soldiers received “significant...

The Ukrainian state power company says the power line supplying the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster has been damaged by Russian forces again after it was repaired.

Ukraine told the International Atomic Energy Agency on Friday that technicians have started repairing damaged power lines at the decommissioned Chernobyl power plant in an effort to restore power supplies, the U.N. nuclear agency said.

The Ukrainian government says that power to the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been cut off.

Russian forces have routinely broken ceasefires declared to allow for evacuation of civilians, but Ukraine’s foreign minister has called for another ceasefire to allow for repairs to Chernobyl’s power outage. Mekahlo Medina reports for Today in LA on Wednesday, March 9, 2022.

Ukrainian authorities say the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, has been knocked off the power grid.

The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate said Friday that higher gamma radiation levels have been detected in the Chernobyl zone

According to a presidential advisor, Ukraine has lost control of the site of the 1986 nuclear reactor explosion.

A presidential adviser says Ukraine lost control of the Chernobyl nuclear site, where Ukranian forces had waged a fierce battle with Russian troops.

Ukraine’s state emergencies service continued to fight a wildfire burning in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.