During the occupation of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the Russians damaged and stole property worth more than $135 million, the calculations are still ongoing and may increase, Yevhen Kramarenko, head of the Ukrainian State Agency for Exclusion Zone Management, told The Washington Post.

Among the lost property - 698 computers, 344 cars, 1500 radiation dosimeters, almost all fire extinguishing equipment. In addition, the rashists destroyed the software that was developed specifically for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which is indispensable and priceless.

GPS trackers were installed on some of the stolen equipment, using which the ChNPP workers were able to track its current location: it is in Belarus.

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Russian troops captured the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the first days of the war.

Some of the station employees, who were then on shift, were taken hostage and were forced to work for several weeks without rotation.. The station returned to Ukrainian control at the end of March, when the Russian army retreated from the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions..

By the way, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently announced plans to carry out a new mission at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Kyiv turned to the IAEA with a request to lead the provision of assistance to him in the field of nuclear security.