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The Hill: Ukraine declassifies secret Soviet documents on Chornobyl explosion

By The Hill.

Published June 30, 2020 at 1:27 am

The local cemetery in Shkneva village in Kyiv Oblast was also damaged by the forest fires that raged here in April. Shkneva was half-evacuated after the 1986 Chornobyl disaster.

Photo by Oleg Petrasiuk

Ukraine’s government has declassified a new set of Soviet-era documents and other information regarding the 1986 Chernobyl incident, known as the worst nuclear disaster in history. The Brussels Times reported that the documents, published as part of a book, “The KGB’s Chernobyl Dossier: From Construction to the Accident,” contains an overview of construction errors in the nuclear plant.