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“The Chernobyl explosion put 400 times more radioactive material into the Earth’s atmosphere than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima….”page 8 of this IAEA document: https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/28/058/28058918.pdf
The collective “west” should have imposed a no-fly zone or given Ukraine the means to do so, before Russia took over the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant.

“The radioactive material, 400 times greater than the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, was airborne and generated a radioactive plume which spread not only over the nearby town of Priypyat, south to Kyiv and across the then USSR (including modern-day Ukraine, Russia and Belarus), but more broadly across Europe to Hungary, Poland, Germany, Austria, Sweden and even as far as Canada….” https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/53449/chornobyl-putin-war-ukraine-nuclear-dangers-1986-disaster/

“Today, Ukraine and the world honor the liquidators of the 1986 radiation disaster. We express our gratitude to those who showed courage and heroism, risked their lives by exposing themselves to radiation in order to reduce the consequences of the accident” (Oleksii Kuleba, Head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, 14 Dec. 2022)

Just as Putin’s Russia calls up the military reserves and fails to give them adequate equipment, so too the Soviet military:
“The majority of liquidators were men called up from [Soviet] military reserves The [Soviet] army did not have adequate uniforms for use in radioactive conditions, so those enlisted had to cobble together their own clothing made from lead sheets measuring 2-4mm thick. These sheets were cut to size to make aprons covering their bodies in front and behind, especially to protect the spine and bone marrow.” See original images of the cleanup crews and text here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2011/apr/26/chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-in-pictures


Chernobyl from Pripyat, public domain via wikipedia

🇺🇦 Oleksii Kuleba, Head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration:
“More than three decades have passed since the world-wide nuclear accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Today, Ukraine and the world honor the liquidators of the 1986 radiation disaster. We express our gratitude to those who showed courage and heroism, risked their lives by exposing themselves to radiation in order to reduce the consequences of the accident, prevent the spread of radiation to other countries and continents.

We, Ukrainians, know the price of this feat better than anyone else. We also know the reasons for the explosion, which was allowed by the Soviet authorities.

Today, a country that is a follower of a totalitarian terrorist regime is once again neglecting world security, seizing nuclear facilities, shelling the territories of nuclear power plants, and threatening nuclear strikes. But we resisted then, we will resist now.

Thanks and respect to the liquidators of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Eternal memory to those who fulfilled their duty at the cost of their lives.” https://t.me/OleksiyKuleba