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Surviving Varash, with war and the nuclear threat: the story of Le Figaro's special envoy

2022-04-01T15:55:30.261Z


REPORT - Only 80 kilometers from Belarus, the inhabitants of this city near a nuclear site are holding their breath. But worry does not leave room for panic.


Special Envoy to Varash

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Reactors watching over the city, Soviet blocks lined up and sculptures and posters glorifying the atom: the cities of Enerhodar and Varash, Ukraine, although hundreds of kilometers apart other look alike.

These two dormitory towns were built for the adjacent nuclear power plants in the 1970s, when the USSR was developing the Ukrainian nuclear program.

Today, the first, 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, only 80 kilometers further north.

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Since the beginning of the war, the 40,000 inhabitants of Varash - 6,000 of them work for the power station - hold their breath.

Some have even decided to go abroad.

“Everyone thought that a nuclear power plant would be a protection against possible hostilities”

, assures, bitter…

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Source: lefigaro

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