Chernobyl anniversary rouses specter of Ukraine nuke threat

KYIV

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is using the 37th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster to repeat his warnings about the potential threat of a new atomic catastrophe in Ukraine amid his country’s war with Russia. Zelenskyy drew a parallel between the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on April 26, 1986 to Moscow’s brief seizure of the plant and its radiation-contaminated exclusion zone following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year. He said Wednesday in a Telegram post in English that Moscow “endangered the entire world again” with its occupation. Russian forces have also been stationed at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant since capturing the site early in the war.