Vladimir Putin's latest savage attack on Kyiv saw a missile hit an apartment block housing Chernobyl survivors killing Natalia Khodemchuk, 62, whose husband had died in the nuclear disaster

On April 26, 2026, less than six months from now, the world will mark the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster (in the relatively short history of nuclear

There is a "0% chance that the blue color is related to radiation," according to Betz, who has co-published several research papers on the impact of radioactive contamination on Chernobyl's dogs.

Researchers from the Dogs of Chernobyl program say that the photo of blue dogs taken in Chernobyl on October 6, 2025, is not doctored.

Nataliia was married to Valerii Khodemchuk, a circulating-pump operator at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl plant, who perished in the first moments of the disaster when that very reactor exploded. His body was never recovered from the rubble and still remains trapped.

Born in a country that would soon vanish off the map, these children became accidental trailblazers of a new global condition: life in the shadow of catastrophes that cross borders and don’t end when news cameras move on.

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone remains one of Earth’s most haunting yet paradoxical places, where death and life intertwine in ways no scientist ever predicted. Nearly 39 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident,