Chernobyl on HBO an Sky Atlantic came to an end this month and viewers have been talking about the highest-rated series of all time ever since. In episode four, a Soviet guard comes across a babushka who was refusing to leave Chornobyl.
Express.co.uk: What happened to the babushkas of Chornobyl?
Maria Semenyuk, 69, a residents in the village of Paryshiv dries and sorts potatos on April 11, 2006 that have grown in one of the world's most radioactive zones, near the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, about 100 km from Kyiv. Some 330 mostly elderly people who have returned after the civillian nuclear disaster in 1986, live illegally in the villages around the power plant.