“Exclusion Zone” Chernobyl it has become an important training ground for Ukrainian forces trying to repel a Russian invasion.
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Covered in khaki camouflage mesh, a Ukrainian army truck equipped with an anti-aircraft gun maneuvers through the surrounding forest-steppe. Chernobylonly 15 km from the Belarusian border.
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Behind him is a tank and a column of men. Upon hearing the signal, the soldiers begin a simulated assault and enter the forest. Chernobylcovered with snow.
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Training profile of Ukrainian soldiers in Chernobyl it’s atypical. “I’m a math teacher, I had no military training,” says Vasily, who, despite this, did not hesitate to join the military when the war broke out a year ago.
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Training in the exclusion zone Chernobylwhich surrounds the damaged plant within a radius of 30 kilometers, is not trivial from a military point of view.
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On the first day of the invasion, February 24, 2022, the Russian army, which entered Ukraine Belarus, which seized the former nuclear power plant without resistance Chernobyl.
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Russia remained in Chernobyl for a month amid controversy over his management of the plant and rumors of contamination by Russian soldiers who were not given adequate protection, which Moscow denied.
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Although the Russian army left the central Chernobylthe threat persists. “The division is still undergoing training on the territory of Belarus,” says a senior Ukrainian army officer, Lieutenant General Sergei Naev.
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With the beginning of the Russian offensive on Ukraine Last year, the position of Belarus – a close ally of Moscow – was closely watched by Kyiv and its Western partners, who fear Minsk’s entry into the conflict.
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“The goal is to repel the enemy’s offensive from the Belarusian side and prevent the landing of troops,” explains the commander of the Ukrainian army, Lieutenant General Sergei Naev. Chernobyl.
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