Mayor of Chernobyl workers' town says Russian forces have left

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

(Reuters) - Russian forces have left the Ukrainian town of Slavutych, home to workers at the defunct nuclear plant of Chernobyl, after completing their task of surveying it, the mayor said early on Monday.

On Saturday, the Kyiv regional governor said Russian forces had taken control of the town just outside the safety exclusion zone around Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986, where Ukrainian staff still manage the plant.

"They completed the work they had set out to do," Yuri Fomichev, the mayor of the northern town, said in an online video post. "They surveyed the town, today they finished doing it and left the town. There aren't any in the town right now."

Reuters could not immediately verify the report.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mayor-chernobyl-workers-town-says-021255965.html

[applegrove]

1. Oh thank God.

[patphil]

2. I hope they check to see that the Russians didn't leave any explosive "gifts" behind.

[lagomorph777]

3. Surveyed it for artillery purposes?

[Layzeebeaver]

4. Surveying it?

Why?

Probably so they can more accurately target civilian facilities with ballistic missiles and artillery.

[Hekate]

5. Phase 1 of their work there is done. Next up, I shudder to think what Phase 2 will be.

[Igel]

6. Unlike Chornobyl proper.

Which reports say is the storage site for tons of ammo, artillery shells, and missiles--with equipment.

In other words, as they risk a breach they're assuming that nobody's going to destroy the materiel lest that party risk a breach.