In this photo taken Wednesday, April 5, 2017, journalists take a selfie in front of the monument of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in Chernobyl, Ukraine. April 26 marks the 31st anniversary of ...

PRIPYAT, Ukraine – A bulletin board in the Ukrainian town of Pripyat still bears an edition of the Sovietsky Patriot newspaper, dated three days before the nuclear explosion that turned the city into ...

Russian troops have exited Slavutych, Ukraine, after completing their task of surveying the defunct Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the town’s mayor announced Monday. The Russian military had seized ...

PRIPYAT, Ukraine – A bulletin board in the Ukrainian town of Pripyat still bears an edition of the Sovietsky Patriot newspaper, dated three days before the nuclear explosion that turned the city into ...

Wearing a white cotton bodysuit, a helmet and a respirator to protect against radiation, tour guide Beata Jevsejeva walks briskly up the stairs to the reactor hall at the decommissioned Ignalina ...

The nuclear ghost town built just two kilometres from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is marking its 50th anniversary. Founded on the 4th of February 1970, Pripyat was entirely evacuated following ...

Natalia Shevchuk gazes at the peeling walls inside her old flat and tears run down her cheeks: 32 years after the Chernobyl disaster she is finally revisiting her childhood home in the ghost town of ...

Wednesday marks the 32nd anniversary to the Chernobyl disaster, history's worst nuclear accident. In April 26, 1986, poorly trained staff and a flawed nuclear reactor resulted in a radioactive steam ...

Thirty years ago, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded, destroying the neighboring company town of Pripyat. Its population of 50,000 people had to be evacuated. Three years later, a new ...