Russian Troops Suffer 'Acute Radiation Sickness' After Digging Chernobyl Trenches

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(Daily Beast) Several hundred Russian soldiers were forced to hastily withdraw from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine after suffering “acute radiation sickness” from contaminated soil, according to Ukrainian officials.

The troops, who dug trenches in a contaminated Red Forest near the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history, are now reportedly being treated in a special medical facility in Gomel, Belarus. The forest is so named because thousands of pine trees turned red during the 1986 nuclear disaster. The area is considered so highly toxic that not even highly specialized Chernobyl workers are allowed to enter the zone.

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“Not surprisingly, the occupiers received significant doses of radiation and panicked at the first sign of illness. And it showed up very quickly.”

Local reports suggest that seven buses with the zapped troops arrived in Gomel early Thursday. Journalists on the ground have also reported “ghost buses” of dead soldiers being transported from Belarus to Russia under the cover of dark.


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[PortTack]

1. More of pootie's military genius on display!!

[underpants]

2. Genius

[Warpy]

37. It's been almost 40 years

and anyone who knows what is buried where is long since dead, not that anyone ever admitted what they died of.

That's the problem with authoritarian, totalitarian leadership. It doesn't like unpleasant truth.

[Wingus Dingus]

3. Not great, not terrible.

[Quakerfriend]

4. I can't fathom how these soldiers did

not know of the risks- They never heard about Chernobyl?

[SoonerPride]

7. No, most of them are too young and never heard of it

They weren't taught about it in school either.

[OhZone]

10. How could they not know of it?

Like have the Russian troops never heard of the Titanic either??

I guess the west's fear mongering media stories that harp and milk fear and tragedy repeatedly year after year are actually helpful in being aware of risks like these.


Oh well.

[SoonerPride]

14. Chernobyl is not taught in Russian schools because it was key factor in the fall of the USSR

So it is simply not taught.

[OhZone]

17. Oh?

I Never thought of it that way.

Yeah, the timing is right, huh?

Thanks!

[uponit7771]

22. YEP !! Kinda like MAGA wants to white wash their treason here

[dsc]

31. I can't imagine there weren't signs around it

such as danger, radiation, etc.

[SoonerPride]

32. Oh I'm sure there are plenty of warnings all over the exclusion zone.

But they may think like much of what they see in Russia, that it was just empty threats.

"Don't come in here: nuclear poisoning threat."

"Yeah, sure. pffft."

[Quakerfriend]

11. I hadn't thought of it that way.

However, there are signs everywhere warning of the danger re: radiation within the zone.

[AllaN01Bear]

5. gee , i wonder why?

[sarcasmo]

6. Trenches, does Russia think it's 1920?

[BeyondGeography]

15. It's where they slept

True story.

[sarcasmo]

16. Broke, joke, military.

[uponit7771]

24. +1, I'm starting to think the world should take their nukes away before they blow themselves up!

I recently read an article about how low on the rung Russian Army is in society.

They are NOT revered like troops are here in the US, they are bullied by Putrids mafia to so he can stay in power.

[sarcasmo]

39. Old nukes like Kim Jong Un's missiles.

[obamanut2012]

28. For warmth

[OhZone]

8. Oh, Pootie-Poot!

What have you done?

[Jim__]

9. Who could possibly have imagined that?

[Quakerfriend]

12. Off topic somewhat but,

if you haven’t yet seen this, it’s a wonderful documentary about the return of wildlife to the exclusion zone:

https://m.

[SunSeeker]

18. Earth truly was an Eden before people fucked it up. nt

[Kaleva]

35. For a short period of time.

For much of Earth's history, the planet would have been a very tough place for humans and many other species to survive.

Like when the moon was much closer to the Earth and tides were hundreds of feet high and would race across continents.

[Crunchy Frog]

41. Not good for humans, but good for the life forms that existed at the time.

Some of them were the ancestors of humans and other modern species, so we likely wouldn't be here without the Earth having existed in that state.

[Kaleva]

43. It was only good for a bit before conditions in Earth changed

and they then went extinct.

[Crunchy Frog]

44. Not all of them obviously, or we wouldn't be here.

[SoonerPride]

20. I love this.

Thank you.

[SunSeeker]

13. Insanity. Putin really just doesn't give a shit. nt

[Initech]

19. Yeah let's dig up the site of a nuclear explosion! What could possibly go wrong?

[MineralMan]

21. Clearly, leadership of Russian ground troops is not good.

Not educated. Not smart. Not able to lead their troops safely in any way. If this is typical, the Russian military is hopelessly inept.

[hunter]

25. Any "leadership" who knew were afraid to speak up about it.

That happens to some extent in the U.S.A. military but the only risk is that you are forced to become a civilian, which all things considered, may be a better life.

[uponit7771]

26. Its worse, RA is very low on the rung in Russian society were here in the US even the private is ...

... revered and supported.

Putrids mafias who collude with the the generals and colonels steal from the military ALL THE TIME.

I'm thinking this country SHOULD NOT have nukes and most likely they don't even work.

They're going to blow themselves up

[Tommy Carcetti]

23. If you've seen Episode 4 of the Chernobyl miniseries...

...you'll know how grim a condition Acute Radiation Sickness is.

[halfulglas]

27. Unfortunately, most of these soldiers' families will never know what happened.

Most of them will be MIA and the families will blame Ukraine for this, not the recklessness of their commanders forcing the soldiers to enter that contaminated area. So many of the Ukrainians warned something like this could happen when they freaked out at the Russians taking that area and the callous way they treated the Chernobyl workers at the remainder of the power plant, keeping them from having shift changes as usual. So many of them didn't know the danger. The whole area is still contaminated.

[Hekate]

29. This war was abysmally planned by Putin's people. But I am also shocked that anyone here ...

… does not know how public education works in an authoritarian regime AKA a dictatorship. Of course these young soldiers never heard about the Chernobyl disaster — it happened on the USSR’s watch and it makes Russia look bad. Public information of any sort is tightly controlled — there is absolutely no “need to know” as far as the overlords are concerned.

The humanitarian disaster created by Putin the Poisoner just gets worse and worse.

[Hekate]

30. What was Trump said at Arlington Cemetery? That our war dead were suckers? Losers?

Putin the Poisoner goes the distance.

[DFW]

33. You sure can't accuse Putin of not being innovative

Before this, he was just using his recruits as cannon fodder.

Now he has created the use of conscripts as Chernobyl fodder. How's that for a "glowing" recommendation?

[Crunchy Frog]

42. Maybe he wanted to run experiments on them. I wouldn't put it past him.

[muriel_volestrangler]

34. Experts doubt this is accurate

because you don't develop sudden radiation sickness from this kind of soil contamination - it increases your chances of cancer, instead:

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As recommended by Cheryl Rofer, retired nuclear scientist involved in disarmament, and blogger at Balloon Juice and Lawyers, Guns and Money - both reliable liberal blogs.

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[mahina]

36. Thank you.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

38. People believe what they want to believe.

[usaf-vet]

40. As far as this ex-medic is concerned they are human beings FIRST and enemies later. Following orders

They will likely suffer from this exposure for the remainder of their lives.

Think Agent Orange for Vietnam vets.

And now depleted uranium for those that served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In all these cases, it is not just the combatants but also the civilian population.