Russian and Belarusian forces entered the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone through Belarus, a Russian allied country located on the northern border of Ukraine. Entry at this point is just 90 kilometers (60 miles) north of Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, and presents most direct route to Kyiv from Belarus.
The abandoned reactor’s industrial area also acts as a good staging area for launching an attack as many hundreds or thousands of vehicles can be parked on the site. But as Phys Org also explains, sensors placed in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone by the Ukrainian Chernobyl EcoCenter to monitor conditions in case of fires or accidents detected substantial jumps in radiation levels following the entry of Russian and Belarussian forces into the area.
Unfortunately, the sensor system is no longer functional thanks to military activity in the area. The explanation for this is that troop and artillery activity will have kicked up dust that contains radioactive contaminants including cesium137, strontium-90, plutonium, uranium and americium-241 (all of which are known as radionuclides). According to Phys Org, all are toxic and carcinogenic if inhaled.
This means that soldiers from both sides as well as Ukrainian civilians and workers in the area have been potentially exposed to radionuclides. Similarly, flora and fauna in the area could once again suffer the ill effects of radiation exposure too. The Chernobyl disaster may’ve been effectively contained over the past couple of decades, but its lingering ill effects could once again rear their ugly head.
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