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| Russian troops withdrawn from Chernobyl with 'acute radiation sickness' |
| 2022-04-01 |
| [NYPOST] Several hundred Russian troops have been withdrawn from the Chernobyl nuclear facility in Ukraine after suffering from "acute radiation sickness" and are being treated in Belarus, according to reports. The Pentagon confirmed earlier that the Russian forces began to pull out from the defunct facility, which was taken on the first day of the invasion, after a pledge by the Kremlin to scale back its offensive. But an employee at the Public Council at the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone management said the soldiers had fled while "irradiated" and bused to a medical facility in Gomel, Belarus, the Mirror reported. "Another batch of irradiated bully boyz who seized the Chernobyl zone was brought to the Belarusian Radiation Medicine Center in Gomel today," Yaroslav Yemelianenko wrote on Facebook. "Have you dug trenches in the Red Forest, b—hes? Now live the rest of your short life with this. There are rules for handling this area. They are mandatory because radiation is physics — it works regardless of status or shoulder ranks," he wrote. "With minimal intelligence in command or soldiers, these consequences could have been avoided," Yemelianenko added. Word about the sickness came soon after Ukrainian officials claimed that Russian troops "looted and destroyed" a specialist laboratory containing "highly active" radioactive samples from the decommissioned nuclear plant. The lab contained "highly active samples and samples of radionuclides that are now in the hands of the enemy," the stage agency said in a Facebook post, referring to unstable atoms that release radiation. The Ukrainian agency had said it hoped Russian troops "will harm [themselves] and not the civilized world." President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of using the exclusion zone around Chernobyl to prepare new attacks. A US official told Agence La Belle France-Presse this week that Russian troops were "walking away from the Chernobyl facility and moving into Belarus. Chernobyl is (an) area where they are beginning to reposition some of their troops — leaving, walking away from the Chernobyl facility and moving into Belarus. "We think that they are leaving. I can’t tell you that they’re all gone," the official added.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 If they are glowing green, shoot em. |
| Posted by: Slappy 2022-04-01 22:10 |
| #8 Digging trenches? Wonder what they buried. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-04-01 12:56 |
| #7 Maybe they didn’t watch the mini series |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-04-01 11:09 |
| #6 My thought was they captured the location to 1) reduce the Ukrainians chances of building a dirty bomb and 2) prevent Ukrainian artillery from being located there. Withdrawal would allow either of those options to the Ukies. Difficult to execute counter-battery fire on an artillery battery sited amongst a reactor complex |
| Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 2022-04-01 11:00 |
| #5 They can all x-ray themselves now. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2022-04-01 10:41 |
| #4 Will the evil Russians deny veteran's benefits for the next 50 years or so? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-04-01 10:02 |
| #3 Sounds like standard military incompetence. I had officers in the US army that would have ordered stupid shit like that. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2022-04-01 09:09 |
| #2 Driving lots of heavy military equipment and vehicle, turning up the dust and dirt, probably was not a good idea no matter what the circumstance in and around the place. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-04-01 08:48 |
| #1 Russian troops "looted and destroyed" a specialist laboratory Reminds me of the Iraqis in Kuwait eating jars of face cream thinking it was goat cheese. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-04-01 08:11 |