A Chernobyl tour group was secretly helping track the Russian invasion.
The first thing the Russians did when they passed the Chernobyl checkpoint was to remove the Ukrainian flag and turn off all the cameras. However, they forgot about the constantly rotating camera on the stand. This is told in The Washingtion Post.
Since the beginning of the invasion, thanks to a small camera, tour operators began to count the number and type of military equipment. Hundreds of cars crossed the border. After two days the flow slowed down. This information was passed on to intelligence agencies.
By the end of the first day of the war, Russian troops captured Chernobyl. The occupation lasted five weeks.
For 25 days on the territory of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, rashists killed nine workers, five were kidnapped. They also took away hundreds of computers, radiation dosimeters, fire fighting equipment and software.
Over the following weeks, approximately 10 employees living in neighboring villages secretly recorded the number, location and direction of Russian military vehicles.
Despite the serious risk, the partisans went into the forests in search of a mobile connection in order to send data to Kyiv. The coordinators in the capital, in turn, tried to send real information about the war in order to counter Russian propaganda and organize a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of residents.
Chernobyl is not only a place of tragedy, – said Yaroslav Emelianenko, head of the tour operator in the Exclusion Zone, – it is also a place of our victory.
Source: Racurs
