Novus America wrote:https://fortune.com/2022/03/29/chernobyl-ukraine-russian-soldiers-dangerous-radiation/amp/
This seems to confirm that the issue was not simply them being in Chernobyl but rather them kicking up massive amounts of dust.
“The employees said that the military vehicles kicked up a “big column of dust,” which may be what sent radiation levels soaring in the area following the invasion. The workers believed that breathing in that much radioactive dust could cause radiation poisoning, which can quickly turn lethal.”
The employees know what areas not to kick up dust/and or presumably wear respirators in said areas.
But apparently the Russians did not know or care.
That is what is most bizarre, apparently many of them did not even know a nuclear disaster had happened in the area:
“Some soldiers had reportedly never heard about the disaster that some historians believe signaled the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union.”
The thing is many Russians live in an bizarre post modern alternative reality created on state TV, not the actual objective reality we live in.
Except radioactive dust does not give a shit about Russia’s deranged post modern “alternative truths”, it will bring the objective truth to you regardless.
Just goes to show how much Putin cares about these troops. Send them into the site of the world’s worst nuclear catastrophe without any PPE or knowledge as to why there is a random, totally abandoned city there, and just shrug when they die of radiation poisoning.
I’d say it makes you sick, but that’s probably not appropriate in this context.
It’s good the Russians are leaving the area though. They were dying in Ukraine, and every war death is a tragedy. Now if only their friends in Kharkiv and the south would do the same, that’d make all our day.
