Maria Sharapova Statement for the Charnobyl Anniversary

Hundreds of thousands of people who lived and worked around the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident continue to suffer on the disaster’s 25th anniversary, commemorated on 26 April by Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis star and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Goodwill Ambassador. The disaster at Chernobyl, in the former Soviet republic of Ukraine, was the worst ever nuclear power plant accident, releasing radioactive pollution into the atmosphere over much of Western Russia and Europe, a