Forty years after the accident, some residents still refuse to leave, even after Vladimir Putin’s army occupied the area in 2022. EL PAÍS visited the exclusion zone and heard the stories of those who resist there
The K-278 has been emitting radioactive material since it sank in 1989, although torpedoes with atomic warheads resist corrosion
Just 15 of the country’s 54 reactors have been reactivated due to expert skepticism and citizen mistrust
In one of the countries with the highest life expectancy in the world, 13% of inmates are elderly, many of whom commit petty crimes to secure shelter and food behind bars
Natalia Khodemchuk, the widow of the first victim of the 1986 nuclear disaster, died from the impact of a Shahed strike on her apartment building in Kyiv
Natalia Gerasimenko was one of the members of the team that uncovered the oldest human artifacts in Europe: stone tools carved by ‘Homo erectus’ 1.4 million years ago in western Ukraine
