quote:Originally posted by Piano*Dad:
Give them sufficient arms ...
... to allow them to fight the Russians to the last Ukrainian alive, but not enough to allow them a decent shot at actually rolling back Russian territorial gains.
quote:Russian troops handed control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant back to the Ukrainians and began leaving the heavily contaminated site more than a month after taking it over, authorities said Thursday, as fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other fronts.
Ukraine’s state power company, Energoatom, said the pullout at Chernobyl came after soldiers received “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches in the forest in the exclusion zone around the closed plant. But there was no independent confirmation of that.
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