Vladimir Putin faces compounding crises as a Siberian plague researcher's death adds to the Ukraine war toll and Russia's faltering economy.

The Chernobyl exclusion zone has long been one of Europe’s strangest wildlife refuges. After the 1986 nuclear disaster, people left large areas, and many animals returned to a landscape with little ...

“Not great, not terrible,” says the fictionalized version of Anatoly Dyatlov, the real-life deputy chief engineer at Chernobyl in April 1986, as he looks at a dosimeter noting 3.6 roentgen per hour, ...

Forty years after Chernobyl, Moscow faces another information battle over a suspected case of pneumonic plague.

In the Ukrainian capital, the 'Chernobyl House' shelters survivors of the 1986 nuclear disaster, now confronted with Russian bombardments. A drone strike there killed Natalia Khodemchuk, widow of the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia struck near the former Chernobyl nuclear energy plant, which started a ...

Chernobyl, Ukraine — After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 40 years ago Sunday, more than 300,000 people fled the towns surrounding the destroyed Unit 4 reactor that spewed lethal radiation. In 2019, ...

Ukraine claimed that Russian missiles are passing near the Chernobyl nuclear plant, increasing the risk of a major accident, according to a new report. Chernobyl and another plan are on the path of ...

SLAVUTYCH, Ukraine — People streamed into the central square of Slavutych in the early hours of Sunday, placing candles on a large radiation hazard symbol laid out on the ground as a midnight ...

Maria Sharapova’s connection to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster goes back to before her birth. Her parents left Gomel, ...