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BumRushDaShow

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3. During the early part of the Ukraine-Russia war

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 04:30 AM

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Russian troops were idiotically running tanks and personnel vehicles across grounds that were well within the Chernobyl "Exclusion Zone" and kicking up the topsoil (because they didn't used the designated roads) that had covered the contaminated soil over the past couple decades. Some idiots even dug trenches in that zone.

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