What are the Russians looking for in Chernobyl? A short way to Kiev

According to various reports, Russia occupied the nuclear site area yesterday; But the question arises as to why the Russians need an inactive and non-military site whose land around it is polluted; This is probably because it is the shortest route from Belarus, from which some of the invading forces to the Ukrainian capital, whose government Russia wants to replace, came out.

Russian and Ukrainian forces fought on Thursday for control of Chernobyl, the nuclear reactor where the most serious radioactive accident in history occurred. Following the leak from the reactor in 1986, tens of thousands of people died over the years, with some estimates exceeding 90,000.

“Our defenders are sacrificing their lives because the tragedy of 1986 will not be repeated,” Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said before the power plant was occupied by the Russians. But why would anyone want a non-working factory surrounded by tens of miles of radioactive ground?

The answer according to Reuters is geographical: the site of the Chernobyl disaster is located on the shortest route from Belarus, an ally of Russia, to Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.

Jack Cain, a former U.S. military general, said the Chernobyl region was “devoid of any military significance” but was on the shortest route from Belarus to Kiev, home to the Ukrainian government, which the Russians want to replace by force. Cain said this route is one From four axes used by Russian forces to invade Ukraine, including another route from Belarus, a route leading south to the city of Kharkiv, and a route from the Crimean peninsula to the city of Kherson, the largest European state attack on its neighbor since World War II.

The occupation of Chernobyl is part of the plan, and a senior Ukrainian official said the site was occupied on Thursday by Russian forces, although a senior U.S. defense official said the U.S. could not confirm that news.

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