PHOTO ESSAY: AP photographer chronicles Chernobyl’s painful legacy of silence, sacrifice and danger
Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/chernobyl">Chernobyl nuclear power plant, about a two-hour drive away.
He has visited the plant and the “exclusion zone” around it dozens of times.
He recalls the disaster that has haunted him and Ukraine for 40 years.
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