The city of Slavutych stages a vigil each year despite current wartime curfews and official warnings against large gatherings ...

Chernobyl is often described as the most expensive disaster in history, with an estimated cost of $180 billion (£133 billion) ...

Ukrainians gathered in the city of Slavutych to remember those affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 40 years ago ...

Ideas have been floated for how the contaminated zone could bring economic benefits to Ukraine. But for the foreseeable ...

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation ...

In the weeks after the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, it was difficult to get any ...

Ukraine is commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster on ​Sunday amid lingering fears that Russia's ...

The BBC's Jessica Parker visits Pripyat, which was abandoned in 1986 after an explosion at the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power ...

Since 2004, the CIS member states have observed April 26 as International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Radiation Accidents and Disasters ...

In the novel "When There Are Wolves Again" by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near ...

As Ukrainians mark the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, some recall last year’s Russian drone attack that ...

Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Przewalski’s horses — stocky, sand-colored and almost toy-like in appearance — graze in ...