# Irradiated Russian Soldiers

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
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**Created:** [March 31, 2022, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irradiated-russian-soldiers/962072 "2022-03-31T23:58:59Z")\
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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> It’s not confirmed that they were digging trenches.

Energoatom, the Ukrainian state enterprise that runs all nuclear power stations in the country, says they were, according to the the article I posted earlier in the ‘Russia invades Ukraine’ thread:

> **[Russian invaders leaving Chornobyl NPP – Energoatom](https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3444941-russian-invaders-leaving-chornobyl-npp-energoatom.html)**
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> The Russian military, who seized the Chornobyl nuclear power plant and other facilities in the exclusion zone, moved in two columns towards the Ukrainian border with Belarus. — Ukrinform.

> According to Energoatom, it has been also confirmed that the Russian military were building fortifications, trenches in the “Red Forest” - the most toxic zone in the entire exclusion zone.

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