Thirty years after families in northern Ukraine were forced to abandon their homes following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, Maxim Dondyuk began collecting their things. The Ukranian ...

The world's worst ever nuclear disaster took place at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine back in 1986, and its effects are still being felt today. A 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone is in ...

A viral photograph on Reddit claimed to show one of the first photographs taken at Chernobyl after the explosion of the nuclear reactor in Ukraine on April 26, 1986. The post claimed it was shot 14 ...

Efrem Lukatsky/AP A decrepit piano stands in a school in the deserted town of Pripyat, Ukraine, April 5, 2017. Once home to some 50,000 people whose lives were connected to the Chernobyl nuclear power ...

Alice Miceli photographed the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine between 2006 and 2010, 20 years after the area’s famous nuclear reactor explosion. She didn’t focus on the buildings reduced to ...

The catastrophe at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant happened 35 years ago. It was the largest anthropogenic disaster in the history of humankind. Belarus was the worst-hit country, suffering enormous ...

Russian troops occupied Chernobyl for five weeks during its invasion of Ukraine. Hundreds of Ukrainian workers were held hostage as troops damaged the plant. The workers have now exposed the damage ...

A large area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that was vacated as a result of the accident that shocked the world in 1986 was called the "exclusion zone". At that time, Chernobyl and its ...

Photographer Raul Moreno recently visited areas near the site of the Chernobyl breakdown. The following are impressions he shared with In Sight; they have been lightly edited for clarity: “It smells ...

Russia's capture of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine and the surrounding exclusion zone raised alarms across the international community, with many world leaders wondering if Russia chose to ...