After the catastrophic accident in the nearby nuclear reactor, the city of Pripyat had to be completely evacuated. Some 50,000 people left their homes forever. DW visited the town with a former ...
Nataliia Khodymchuk lived in memory of her late husband, Valerii, the first worker to die in the nuclear meltdown at ...
When Klavdia Omelchenko left her home in Pripyat, she thought it would be for a few days. But the 19-year-old had no idea ...
Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and ...
Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the ...
Drone footage has captured the eerie beauty of a Ukrainian city that has been abandoned for more than three decades since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Pripyat was founded in 1970 as one of nine ...
HAUNTING images show the ghost city of Pripyat, Ukraine, which was evacuated 33 years ago after the Chernobyl explosion. The disaster was a catastrophic nuclear explosion that took place in 1986 – ...
HAUNTING images show the ghost city of Pripyat, Ukraine, which was evacuated 33 years ago after the Chernobyl explosion. The disaster was a catastrophic nuclear explosion that took place in 1986 – ...