Deliver Me from My Enemies by Sharon Oliver

On Saturday, officials in Moscow-controlled Crimea, towns under Russian occupation in southern Ukraine reported attacks. On Friday, a Russian strike on a block of flats in the central Ukrainian city of Uman killed 23 people, including a baby boy. The recent attacks on Saturday came one day after Kyiv said preparations for a long-awaited counteroffensive were nearly complete, having vowed to expel Russian forces from territory they seized in the east and south following their 2022 invasion. To the east, in Moscow -annexed Crimea, fighting has now intensified after a suspected drone attack hit an oil depot as shelling deprived Russian border villages of power. 'I think they understood the risks, but they're just thick.' 70-year-old Chernobyl local Galyna Voloshnya said.Īround two weeks after arriving in the area, the Russians left to mount the failed attack on Kyiv in early April, leaving Chernobyl to its hauntingly quiet state.

The Sunday Times reported that some of the very few elderly locals who live in the area and have become significantly blasé about the dangers surrounding them where particularly shocked at how the Russians would act. The Russians are also said to have fished in the reactor's cooling chamber, catching the catfish that swim in the destroyed nuclear base.īut others were struck down with radiation sickness from simply being in the area, walking around, and kicking up the dust. Some suggested that Russian troops made their base there as they knew Ukrainian forces would not attack the area as they knew the catastophic dangers around the nuclear plant. 'It's the most dangerous territory in the special zone, because under the ground we have nuclear waste.' Russian soldiers are said to have spent two weeks with six mile vicinity of the radioactive reactor No 4, where they slept, ate, and drank. Speaking to The Sunday Times, Oksana Pyshna, 30, an official responsible for the exclusion zone, said 'don't try to find logic' regarding the upheaval of radioactive soil by Putin's men in Chernobyl's nearby forest.

Deliver Me from My Enemies by Sharon Oliver