Since then, the city has endured a brief Russian occupation during Moscow’s failed push to seize the Ukrainian capital in ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In May 2025, President Donald Trump issued four executive orders aimed at expanding the nuclear power industry. Trump called ...

For 40 years, the residents of northern Ukraine and southern Belarus have grappled with the devastating effects of the ...