NBC News published this video item, entitled “Ukrainian Troops Use Chernobyl Ghost Town For Training Exercises” – below is their description.
Amid the threat of Russian invasion, Ukrainian military personnel and first responders conducted urban combat drills on the deserted streets of Pripyat, near the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
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The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history both in cost and casualties.
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Pripyat, also known as Pryp’yat’ or Prypyat, is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine, near the Ukraine–Belarus border. Named after the nearby river Pripyat, the town was founded on 4 February 1970 as the ninth “atomgrad”, a type of closed town in the Soviet Union, to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
