In February 2022, during the Russian aggression against Ukraine, Russian troops were moving through the Red Forest. Long military convoys raised clouds of radioactive dust.
Nuclear plant workers reported that the Russian occupiers did not use protective suits and put their health at risk.
On 31 March 2022, most of the Russian troops occupying Chernobyl were forced to retreat because of radiation sickness among soldiers and officers. Russian troops dug trenches in the heavily contaminated Red Forest.
On April 1, 2022, “The Daily Telegraph” reported the death of one Russian soldier from acute radiation sickness after a long stay in a camp in the Red Forest. In October 2022, CNN reported that Russian soldiers stationed at Chernobyl were treated in Belarus. Many of the soldiers showed signs of radiation exposure.
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▶ ︎ The name “Red Forest” comes from the reddish-brown colour of the pines after they died as a result of absorption of high levels of ionising radiation as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on 26 April 1986.
The pine forest absorbed huge doses of radioactive dust through its treetops. For all living organisms living there, the radiation was deadly. The radiation literally scorched out life, turning century-old pine trees into desiccated red skeletons.
The explosion and fire at the Chernobyl No. 4 reactor contaminated the soil, water and atmosphere with up to 20 times more radioactive matter than the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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