Both men said they had witnessed Russian tanks and other armored vehicles moving through the Red Forest, which is the most radioactively contaminated part of the zone around Chernobyl, around 100 ...

But somehow, the still-very-real health risks inherent to lingering around certain parts of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone just didn’t sink in with Russian soldiers and their commanding officers based ...

Incredible drone video: Specially-equipped drones were used to fly over Chernobyl’s ghostly Red Forest, which is one of the most radioactive sites on the planet, to map the extent of its ...

The Red Forest is just 500m from the Chernobyl nuclear complex. It was hit by the immediate fallout from the 1986 explosion and fire in the plant's number-4 reactor.

The 2,600-square-kilometre (1,000-square-mile) Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was established after the April 1986 disaster at the plant that sent a cloud of radioactive fallout over much of Europe.

Russian soldiers who seized the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster drove their armoured vehicles without radiation protection through a highly toxic zone called the "Red Forest", kicking up ...

Russian soldiers who seized the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster drove their armoured vehicles without radiation protection through a highly toxic zone called the "Red Forest", kicking up ...

LONDON (Reuters) – Russian soldiers who seized the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster drove their armoured vehicles without radiation protection through a highly toxic zone called the “Red ...