40 years on from the Chernobyl disaster, leaders draw parallels with then and now

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with his Moldovan counterpart in Kyiv, as the world marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster- and draws stark contrasts with the current state of play in Europe.

View of the sarcophagus covering the damaged Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on March 10, 2006, nearly 20 years after the 1986 explosion spewed radioactive clouds over the western part of the Soviet Union and much of Europe. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) Credit: AP

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