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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo you know what separates Russian troops and the city of Kiev?
Chernobyl, Miles of radioactive land. One of the most dangerous places on earth.
By the way, if you have never seen the HBO series Chernobyl, watch it, it was outstanding. It gave me chills.
Walleye
(30,723 posts)Bayard
(21,806 posts)Hadn't thought of that. Aerial assault?
fightforfreedom
(4,913 posts)That would scare the shit out of me. Imagine if fighting broke out in that zone. Dam.
lastlib
(22,981 posts)to bomb that reactor just to contaminate more of Ukraine.
haele
(12,581 posts)Many countries view their ground troops as fungible. I suspect Putin cares as much for his ground troops as any mob boss cares for the street level mules his enforcers recruit for an intimidation job.
Besides, they expect to get through the Chernobyl area in a four or five hours. I'm sure they have told the troops their exposure would be the same as if they took a couple x-rays.
Haele
fightforfreedom
(4,913 posts)Soldiers are expendable. The weapons they carry are non-expendable.
sl8
(13,584 posts)Which is not to say that there's no danger, but I think that troops could pass through and avoid the really dangerous areas.
Somehow, I doubt Putin would have any qualms about sending troops through the outer exclusion zone.
I second your reccomendation for the HBO series.
https://www.highheelsandabackpack.com/visiting-chernobyl-is-it-safe-to-travel-
Visiting Chernobyl: Is it safe to travel to Chernobyl? (2022 Guide)
fightforfreedom
(4,913 posts)DetroitLegalBeagle
(1,904 posts)Its about 10 miles down the road from Pripryat and the containment building. They stay there for multiday trips. If I remember right there are still around 10,000 people who live within the area, mainly workers at the plant itself. The power plant's remaining reactors are being decommissioned. The plant had 3 other reactors and those were still being used till 2000.
PortTack
(32,606 posts)They go with geiger counters and respirators and stay 20-30 minutes
FBaggins
(26,697 posts)It separates Belarus from Kiev perhaps... but not Russia.
Nor is it "one of the most dangerous places on earth". By most standards, you wouldn't want to pitch a tent and live there permanently... but it's not at all dangerous to drive through (even ignoring the fact that Russian forces can plan for NBC warfare).
Buckeyeblue
(5,491 posts)I believe it is safer to be in parts of Chernobyl. I seem to remember an episode of River Monsters being filmed there. Although, I think Jeremy Wade had to monitor his exposure.
What I thought was great about the series is how well, in film, they were able to tell the story of how lies become facts. And what it takes to fight against it.
fightforfreedom
(4,913 posts)I was also shocked to learn that when you are dying from radiation poisoning, you have a short recovery period where you think you are going to get better. Then your body begins to basically melt and you die the most painful death imaginable.
Then there were the soldiers who had to go to the city and kill the thousands of pets left behind because they were so radioactive.
Buckeyeblue
(5,491 posts)The Soviets sent those people to their deaths. And lied to them as they did it.
JHB
(37,132 posts)...especially ones built for chemical/biological/radiation hazards.
The radiation is high enough that you don't want to live there, but it's not much of a hazard for just passing through.
And even for living, it's become a sort of animal preserve since there's very little human activity there anymore. no wierd mutants, either, just normal animals.
maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)the Dneiper River separates Kyiv from Russia, but not from Belarus.
LiberatedUSA
(1,666 posts)sarisataka
(18,220 posts)That should stop them since there is no way they could go around it.
Or drive right on through it. Military force train to deal with radiation contamination, Russia does it more than most.
cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)I mean there's really no radiation threat driving through. I want to live there 30 years perhaps. But it's about as much radiation as grand central station?
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)Belarus had more land contaminate than Ukraine.