https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ssia-Kiev.html
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Ukraine has sent troops to guard against any Russian incursion on the Chernobyl exclusion zone, with the highly radioactive site believed to be a potential entry point for Kremlin aggressors.
Despite the site in northern Ukraine still being radioactive and mainly harbouring ghost towns and fallow fields, the Chernobyl exclusion zone is believed to be at risk of being conquered, reports The New York Times.
This is because the shortest path from Russia to Kiev would take Putin's troops through the isolated zone.