Chernobyl
The 1986 nuclear meltdown took place inside the Chernobyl power plant’s No. 4 reactor
Pripyat
River
Red forest
Area remains heavily contaminated from the disaster
Two km
Two miles
Belarus
Russia
Chernihiv
Chernobyl
Ukraine
control
Sumy
Lutsk
Kyiv
Dnieper
River
Ukraine
Russian
control
Romania
Moldova
Odesa
Kherson
Black Sea
Crimea
100 km
100 miles
Russian forces seized Chernobyl on the first day
of the invasion but later withdrew
Belarus
Ukraine
control
Russia
Chernobyl
The 1986 nuclear meltdown took place inside the Chernobyl power plant’s No. 4 reactor
Chernihiv
Chernobyl
Sumy
Lutsk
Kyiv
Pripyat
River
Dnieper
River
Ukraine
Red forest
Area remains heavily contaminated from the disaster
Russian
control
Romania
Moldova
Odesa
Kherson
Black Sea
Crimea
100 km
Two km
100 miles
Two miles