After the catastrophic accident in the nearby nuclear reactor, the city of Pripyat had to be completely evacuated. Some 50,000 people left their homes forever. DW visited the town with a former ...

When Klavdia Omelchenko left her home in Pripyat, she thought it would be for a few days. But the 19-year-old had no idea ...

Russia’s invasion deepens the saga of Ukraine’s Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. A woman who fled war and ended up there says, “We ...

The price of human error and nature's force: a journey into the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone that reshaped history It has been 40 ...

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and ...

Forty years after the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, former residents are still living with its consequences.

This multifaceted fail comes to us straight from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, where a group of friends apparently decided that a fun weekend project would be trying to turn over the iconic ferris ...

Drone footage has captured the eerie beauty of a Ukrainian city that has been abandoned for more than three decades since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Pripyat was founded in 1970 as one of nine ...

In the early hours of 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after a planned safety test went catastrophically wrong. The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a chain ...