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How Chernobyl Workers Defeated the Russian Army

NUCLEAR POWER

The scene of Ukraine’s worst disaster became the battleground of one of its first victories against Russia.

A portrait of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant night shift supervisor Oleksiy Shelestiy on May 28, 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images

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