{"id":136026,"date":"2022-02-24T15:42:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T23:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/russian-forces-seize-control-of-chernobyl-nuclear-plant-ukrainian-official-says"},"modified":"2022-02-24T15:42:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T23:42:56","slug":"russian-forces-seize-control-of-chernobyl-nuclear-plant-ukrainian-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/russian-forces-seize-control-of-chernobyl-nuclear-plant-ukrainian-official-says","title":{"rendered":"Russian forces seize control of Chernobyl nuclear plant, Ukrainian official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russian-forces-seize-control-of-chernobyl-nuclear-plant-ukrainian-official-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russian forces have seized control of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/02\/07\/europe\/ukraine-chernobyl-belarus-intl-cmd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chernobyl power plant<\/a> in northern Ukraine, the site of the world\u2019s worst nuclear disaster, according to the agency that manages the area.<\/p>\n<p>Troops overran the plant on the first day of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/02\/24\/europe\/ukraine-russia-invasion-thursday-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Russia\u2019s multi-pronged invasion of Ukraine<\/a>, a spokesperson for the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management, Yevgeniya Kuznetsov\u0430, told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I came to the office today in the morning (in Kyiv), it turned out that the (Chernobyl nuclear power plant) management had left. So there was no one to give instructions or defend,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian forces have seized control of the Chernobyl power plant in northern Ukraine, the site of the world\u2019s worst nuclear disaster, according to the agency that manages the area. Troops overran the plant on the first day of Russia\u2019s multi-pronged invasion of Ukraine, a spokesperson for the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}