A resident of Makariv district once told Texty.org.ua about the movement of an occupying column in northern Kyiv region: "The Russians drove straight out of the forest, which used to be entirely peatlands. However, during the Soviet era, melioration efforts created a road, and that's the route they took."Читати українською

Almost 40 years ago, about 2.5 thousand square kilometers turned into an uninhabitable zone. An unprecedented evacuation of the population and the cessation of economic activity took place on a scale never seen before in peacetime. We know the reason well—the Chernobyl disaster, the largest man-made catastrophe in human history.