Russian forces that occupied the Chernobyl nuclear power plant stole radioactive substances from research labs that could potentially kill them.
This was stated by the Ukrainian state agency for the management of the exclusion zone on Facebook, cited by the BBC.
The Agency reports that Russian troops, who had entered a storage area of the Ecocentre research base
, stole 133 highly radioactive substances.
"Even a small fraction of these substances are fatal if handled unprofessionally", explains the Agency, adding that "the place where the stolen substances were taken is unknown".
Around Chernobyl, in the Red Forest, in the exclusion zone of the nuclear power plant, where the Russian military dug trenches and tried to build fortifications, "
abnormally high levels of radiation have been recorded
".
The Ukrainian state company for nuclear energy
Energoatom
reports on Telegram , whose head Petro Kotin together with the specialists of the Company visited one of the areas of the forest.
The external radiation index "is 10-15 times higher than normal", explains Energoatom, adding that "one of the indicators that forms the internal radiation received by the occupants from the soil surface (Beta contamination)" is "
160 times higher than the norm "
.
Another factor of internal radiation is alpha pollution, which is formed as a result of irradiated nuclear fuel fragments, graphite masonry, etc.
scattered throughout this part of the Red Forest: "These fragments are now found at a depth of 40-80 cm; the occupants have dug deeper. When ingested, this type of radiation is tens and hundreds of times more powerful than gamma radiation and beta, "says Energoatom, concluding that all Russian soldiers who have been in the Red Forest and have been digging" for nearly 30 days, will face radiation sickness of varying severity. "