KYIV, Ukraine — Strikes across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia killed at least 16 people, authorities said, as the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster prompted fresh ...

The explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, changed the lives of thousands of Soviet citizens. The plant was located 20 kilometres ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Four decades on, Chernobyl remains too dangerous ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

It’s a blast from the past. Eerie photos of the infamous nuclear Chernobyl site show the abandoned Ukrainian power plant frozen in time — with a control panel still lit up ahead of the 40th ...

People streamed into the central square of Slavutych in the early hours of Sunday, placing candles on a large radiation hazard symbol laid out on the ground as a midnight commemoration began for those ...

Chicago Electronic Artist Turns Historical Obsession Into Music — and a Mission to Aid Displaced Ukrainians Forty Years. Eight Tracks. The Story That Changed the World — Told Through Cinematic ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

A catastrophe occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant 40 years ago, on 26 April 1986. Its consequences have affected ...