At the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, after the occupation of the Russian military, a pile of human excrement was found in every office. Alexander Barsukov, deputy director of the Chernobyl Ecocenter, said this in a commentary to The Wall Street Journal..

“The poop was the icing on the cake,” joked Barsukov.

According to him, the invaders removed TVs from the walls in the workrooms, broke down the doors and smashed the equipment, and took hard drives from all computers..

Conference rooms were spray-painted, files scattered throughout the offices.

Today, station employees are working to restore and clean up the territory from the consequences of several weeks of Russian occupation..

The publication quoted Chernobyl press secretary Yulia Bezdyzha as saying that the Russian military official first enlisted employees of the Russian state nuclear agency Rosatom and offered them to oversee the management of the nuclear facility..

" It requires special skills that they didn't have,"

Specified. that Chernobyl avoided the worst-case scenario. But the consequences of the Russian occupation still affect those on the station..

Workers returned to destroyed offices.

But the Ukrainian military had to build a temporary crossing to replace a bridge that Russian forces destroyed, and many workers now face a long commute to work..

Evidence remains throughout the nuclear power plant that Russian soldiers were ill-informed about the nature of the area.. Military trenches were dug into the ground, loosening soil still contaminated from the 1986 accident..

Recall that the invaders seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on the first day of a full-scale war - February 24. The Russian military left the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on March 31.