Russian soldiers hospitalized with symptoms of radiation exposure

The Russian soldiers, who Moscow said were poisoned by the Ukrainians, would have symptoms of radiation exposure.

The Russian military, which the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed over the weekend to have been poisoned by the Ukrainians, are soldiers who were stationed on the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and who were hospitalized with symptoms characteristic of radiation exposure, Ukrainian paramedic Bogdan Bondarenko said on Monday , quoted by numerous Ukrainian media, including the Unian news agency.

They were transported to the hospital on July 31 from the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, and their symptoms mentioned in the media are characteristic of the disease caused by exposure to radiation, the Ukrainian expert points out in a Facebook post, which caused a stir in local press.

In order to find out what is really happening at the plant in Zaporizhia, it is necessary to establish a demilitarized perimeter around it and place the objective under the control of international organizations, he added.

“The Russian soldiers, who were performing duties at the nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye, were taken to the intensive care unit with symptoms identical to radiation sickness. The Russians, of course, talk about chemical poisoning, but the injured come from the nuclear power plant. Not to mention the level of reliability of the information delivered by the Russians in general. Now, before it’s too late, everything possible must be done to get a real picture of the situation at the plant’, says Bondarenko, who is currently on the front line.

According to the Russian Ministry, quoted by AFP, a number of Russian soldiers were hospitalized on July 31 in a military hospital with symptoms of serious poisoning, and the analyzes would have indicated the presence of a toxic substance, in this case botulinum toxin type B, in the bodies their.

Their hospitalization happened at a time when Ukraine and Russia were accusing each other of bombing the nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye, recalls Bondarenko.

The Ukrainian state nuclear agency Energoatom had then announced a possible radiation leak at the nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye. Meanwhile, the Russian nuclear agency Rosatom has withdrawn all employees who had been posted to the plant in Zaporozhye, and Russia has until recently opposed an IAEA inspection of the plant.

The Ukrainian paramedic believes that the situation with the concealment of information by Russia is similar to the way the USSR leadership behaved immediately after the Chernobyl tragedy.

Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Friday for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to send a mission to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, saying he feared the bombings would lead to a “large-scale disaster”. according to Reuters.

An IAEA delegation could visit the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye at the beginning of September, Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s permanent representative to international organizations based in Vienna, where the IAEA is located, declared on the same day, CNN reported.

A diplomat also explained to AFP at the time that the West is more worried about whether water cooling can be maintained at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant than about the impact of a strike, because the area that houses the reactors is designed to “resist the worst-case scenario”.

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