Russian Forces Abandon Chernobyl After Radiation Exposure: Report

Russian forces have left the Chernobyl nuclear plant and turned the site back over to Ukraine, the Ukrainian government said on Friday.

Russian forces abandoned the inactive nuclear plant, the site of the most fatal nuclear meltdown in history, after stirring up radioactive dust in the plant’s exclusion zone, workers at the plant said. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense attributed the Russian exodus to battlefield defeats to the Ukraine military, as well.