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Chernobyl is today, 100 days after the invasion of Ukraine, a much more dangerous place than it already was. The mines planted by the Russians form an explosive cocktail together with the radiation that accumulated after the 1986 nuclear accident. Oleksandr Skita, a 47-year-old engineer, perfectly remembers the early hours of February 24 when the first invaders arrived. “The alarms started to sound at 4:40 and the evacuation operation was launched,” he recounts. But he didn’t leave on the buses they chartered right away. He didn’t drive down the road with his car either. He stayed of his own free will. Like him, only a few dozen workers and neighbors remained under the yoke of the occupying military for a month.

Despite the iron control to which they were subjected, some were of great help by improvisingly becoming members of the Ukrainian intelligence apparatus. They passed on all the information they could about the movement of troops, the number, how they acted… During their visit this week to the exclusion zone, EL PAÍS met some of them. They do not want to give excessive details because, they recognize, it is a way of acting that continues to be maintained in other areas under enemy occupation. “When the war is over,” says one with a mischievous smile. As proof of the favors rendered to the country, some have already been decorated and proudly show the medal and the document that certifies it. “We tried to be helpful. I am not a hero, ”he ditches.

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Who does not seem that the invasion changed the rhythm of life is Evgenii Markevich, 85 years old, one of the oldest in the place and one of the very few neighbors who live around the nuclear power plant. He was gone only a few months after the 1986 disaster and resisted being relocated. “The military lived right across the street in the lab building. My dogs ran there, I didn’t know there were Russians and I went after the dogs. I saw 10 people with machine guns having lunch and asked if they would shoot. I wanted to see what kind of people there were. There were young people, they were friendly, they gave me a food ration”, he says in his house, in front of the greenhouse where he takes care of his vegetable garden.

At the Chernobyl plant, 10 kilometers from Belarus and on the shortest route to kyiv, there was tension, but not intense fighting, as there was at the gates of kyiv. It would have been reckless, says a resident of a nearby town. The Ukrainian Army did not stand up. He waited a few tens of kilometers below after blowing up all the bridges to complicate the Russian advance.

Ferris wheel that was to be inaugurated in the now abandoned city of Pripyat five days before the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
The metal sarcophagus that covers the site of the reactor that suffered the accident in 1986 is the largest mobile structure ever built.
The metal sarcophagus that covers the site of the reactor that suffered the accident in 1986 is the largest mobile structure ever built.
  Swastika left by the Russians in one of the buildings they occupied in Chernobyl.
Swastika left by the Russians in one of the buildings they occupied in Chernobyl.Luis DeVega Hernandez
Evgeniy Markevich, 85, one of the oldest in the place and one of the very few neighbors who live around the nuclear power plant.  During the occupation he received food from the Russians for a few days.
Evgeniy Markevich, 85, one of the oldest in the place and one of the very few neighbors who live around the nuclear power plant. During the occupation he received food from the Russians for a few days.
Evgeniy Markevich, 85, has lived in Chernobyl since 1945, leaving only a few months after the 1986 nuclear disaster.
Evgeniy Markevich, 85, has lived in Chernobyl since 1945, leaving only a few months after the 1986 nuclear disaster.
Oleksandr Skita, a 47-year-old engineer who spent the Russian occupation of Chernobyl, in front of a Z that represents the Kremlin Army.
Oleksandr Skita, a 47-year-old engineer who spent the Russian occupation of Chernobyl, in front of a Z that represents the Kremlin Army.
Military checkpoint on the road leading to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Military checkpoint on the road leading to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
  Interior of the House of Culture in Pripyat, the city closest to the nuclear power plant and which has been abandoned since the accident in 1986.
Interior of the House of Culture in Pripyat, the city closest to the nuclear power plant and which has been abandoned since the accident in 1986.
New sign that warns in the exclusion zone around the nuclear power plant of the presence of mined areas after the departure of the Russians.
New sign that warns in the exclusion zone around the nuclear power plant of the presence of mined areas after the departure of the Russians.
Checkpoint of Russian troops on a road in Chernobyl.
Checkpoint of Russian troops on a road in Chernobyl.
Computers abandoned on a roadside after the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chernobyl, where they were for approximately a month.
Computers abandoned on a roadside after the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chernobyl, where they were for approximately a month.
Nature has become strong in the city of Pripyat, abandoned since the 1986 nuclear disaster.
Nature has become strong in the city of Pripyat, abandoned since the 1986 nuclear disaster.
Trenches and camping area erected by the Kremlin military in the vicinity of the red forest, near the nuclear power plant and one of the most polluted areas in the world.
Trenches and camping area erected by the Kremlin military in the vicinity of the red forest, near the nuclear power plant and one of the most polluted areas in the world.

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A small column of vehicles arrived at Chernobyl around 11:00 on February 24, says engineer Skita. “I immediately called my mother in Kharkiv and she told me that they were attacking there too. Where was I going to go?” he adds as he shrugs. The first scare came that morning. “I was going to church, which is where there is better coverage to talk. They stopped me and laid me on the ground while they aimed at my head. They took my phone, but I had erased all the information”, adds this man, who has worked in Chernobyl since 1994.

Kremlin troops spent a month in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, a 30-kilometre circle around the nuclear plant. They ignored during all that time the dangers that the highly poisoned terrain still harbors, as the government of President Volodímir Zelenski warned. They dug trenches, moved earth to fill sacks with which they installed barricades and roadblocks, set up camps… “Digging here is very dangerous,” says engineer Skita, who fears that the soldiers have taken the radiation with them.

In the building where the engineer has his office, a swastika is painted on one of the doors. Skita recalls that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, justifies the invasion by the need to “denazify” Ukraine. Some of the rooms are still scrambled and with Russian military clothing abandoned here and there. A Z is painted on a mirror hanging on the wall, with which the Russian invaders mark their vehicles and with which they usually leave their trail wherever they pass.

Camp where the Kremlin troops were installed very close to the red forest of Chernobyl, one of the most polluted places in the world.
Camp where the Kremlin troops were installed very close to the red forest of Chernobyl, one of the most polluted places in the world.Luis de Vega

Skita spent the first 10 days at home and then moved to another neighbor’s house. They were not allowed to move and they could see the Russian controls through the window. Sometimes they heard gunshots. “When I was already at home with my friend, they began to take a census of the population. They made us go out to count us and offered us the possibility of taking us to Belarus”, a country allied with the Kremlin. “It was advice, not an order. They came back two more times. They asked us strange questions like why were we still here, where were the police, where were the Nazis, if we had weapons…”.

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One of the settlements of the Russian military is still today as they left it, very close to what is known as the Red Forest. It is one of the most polluted places in the world and is a couple of kilometers from the security dome, the largest mobile structure ever built, which has covered the famous reactor 4 since 2016, which was blown up in 1986. There are the holes drilled in the ground ignoring the danger, the sandbags to build surveillance posts, the nailed planks to build booths, the ammunition boxes, computers looted from offices… And the mines. The sappers have only been able to examine a small part of the occupied land. They have marked a corridor with sticks topped by red tape. The danger of radiation, a reminder of Soviet irresponsibility, goes hand in hand with the explosives left as a reminder by the Russians in the current war.

Warning of the presence of mined areas in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Warning of the presence of mined areas in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.Luis de Vega

Yashunin Vadim Alekseevich, a 27-year-old electrician, was just starting his two-week shift on February 24. He got rid of living the occupation in La Zona, as the exclusion perimeter is known, for a few hours. He tells it at the foot of the huge sarcophagus in what is his first week on the job after the departure of the Russians. There is hardly any movement around, as the facilities have stopped working and tourist visits have been canceled due to the war.

After several weeks, the military “began to leave. A great column. One morning we saw that there was no one on the street, no one at the roadblocks. They had abandoned some vehicles”, recalls Skita, who came down the road towards kyiv, about 130 kilometers from the plant, until the first destroyed bridge was found. “Until two days later we did not see the Ukrainian Army appear here,” he adds.

It was on March 31 that the Ukrainian authorities announced that they were once again in control of the plant. The proof was an act in which the signature of a Russian general was stamped. The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, acknowledged the following day that the movement of Russian troops had raised radiation levels, although they were still within normal limits.

None of this seems to worry Evgenii Markevich, the 85-year-old neighbor, who, unlike the engineer, seemed to have a letter of marque from the occupants. “You could walk freely, because the city was empty. The only problem was the food. Once, the military called me on the phone and brought me something to eat”, explains the man, a resident of Chernobyl since 1945. Now, two months after the Russian withdrawal, he has returned to his usual calm and time does not exist for the. His concern is to celebrate life by toasting with a shot of whiskey. And then she cracks the biggest smile.

Evgenii Markevich, 85 years old and a resident of Chernobyl since 1945.
Evgenii Markevich, 85 years old and a resident of Chernobyl since 1945.Luis de Vega

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