Send to KindleThe presidents of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and of Russia Dmitry Medvedev laid down the first stones to a new memorial in the evacuated city of Chernobyl on the 25th anniversary of the disaster at the nearby NPP.
The memorial will honor the rescue workers who tried to tame the explosion and ward off radiation, and paid for that with their health and lives.
The Chernobyl disaster happened on April 26, 1986, and is by far the greatest accident to have occurred at a NPP.
The first to arrive at the site of the disaster in the small hours of that day were regular firefighters from the local squads in Pripyat and Chernobyl.
Hundreds are estimated to have died and suffered severe health problems due to their involvement in the taming of the nuclear accident.
The new monument honoring them is scheduled to be ready by December 14.
Presidents Yanukovych and Medvedev paid homage to the other memorials to the victims of the disaster in Chernobyl and vowed to work for safe nuclear energy.
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