40 years after Chernobyl, Russian invasion complicates restoration efforts

CHORNOBYL, Ukraine — After the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, 40 years in the past Sunday, greater than 300,000 individuals fled the cities surrounding the destroyed Unit 4 reactor that spewed deadly radiation. In 2019, Nadiia Mudryk-Mochalova fled to Chornobyl, because the Ukrainians spell it, for work — after shifting to Kyiv together with her daughters to flee the armed males who occupied their city within the jap Luhansk area close to the Russian border.