In a statement to the PEOPLE, a rep for HBO said: “Throughout the entire process of making Chernobyl, the producers were fully committed to depicting all events, including Lyudmilla and Vasily ...

Ludmilla was the wife of Chernobyl firefighter Vasily Ignatenko (played by Adam Nagatits) who was also a real person. Ludmilla and Vasily married in 1983, after meeting in 1979 as teenagers.

Pregnant Lyudmilla Ignatenko watched in despair as the life of her husband, reduced to a “bloodied monster” by the Chernobyl blast, slowly ebbed away. Her partner Vasily, 25, was one of the first ...

The 1986 nuclear reactor explosion was dramatised this year in the HBO/Sky series Chernobyl. It includes the story of Lyudmila Ignatenko, whose husband was one of the firefighters who tackled the ...