Varash survived the war and the nuclear threat. A story by a special correspondent for Le Figaro

Special Envoy of Varash

Reactors guarding the city, Soviet blocks lined up, sculptures and posters glorifying the atom. The cities of Enerhodar and Varash in Ukraine, although hundreds of kilometers apart, are similar. These two dormitory towns were built for adjacent nuclear power plants in the 1970s, when the USSR was developing the Ukrainian nuclear program. Today, the first one, located on the banks of the Dnieper, in the south of the country, is occupied by the Russians. The other, in northwestern Ukraine, lives in fear of an attack by forces from Belarus, just 80 kilometers to the north.

Since the beginning of the war, the 40,000 inhabitants of Varash, 6,000 of whom work at the power plant, have been holding their breath. Some even decided to go abroad. “Everyone thought that the nuclear power plant would be a defense against possible military operations.”convinced, bitter…

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