#chernobyl

#chernobyl

Andriy Shevchenko reflects on his early days in football, emphasizing how the sport united diverse communities even in a pre-globalization world.

The Chernobyl disaster resulted in permanent displacement and contamination, creating a 30-kilometre exclusion zone around the plant that will remain uninhabitable for 20,000 years.

On April 26, 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant caused the worst nuclear disaster in history, leading to immediate deaths and long-term radiation-induced fatalities.