Ukrainian troops forced to build fortifications in radioactive Chernobyl, captured soldier reveals

Ukrainian troops forced to build fortifications in radioactive Chernobyl, captured soldier reveals Ukrainian conscripts are being obliged by their superiors to build fortification in areas contaminated by radiation, if the story of one Ukrainian soldier who was captured by Russian forces is to be believed. Ukrainian serviceman Vitaly Ozimov, who was taken by Russian troops in the Kursk region, has revealed that he previously participated in the construction of fortifications in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. According to Ozimov, who identified himself as a serviceman of Ukraine’s 49th Brigade, shortly after being press-ganged he was assigned to an engineering company and first sent to build concrete fortifications in the Kiev region. Then, however, Ozimov and his comrades were assigned to a much more hazardous area. “We built a lot in Chernobyl,” the captive Ukrainian soldier revealed, adding that radiation levels in one of the areas they had to work at was 12 times above the norm.... Source: Sputnik International