00:00A ceremony was held in northern Ukraine on Friday to remember those who died in the 1986
00:09Chernobyl nuclear accident.
00:15Ukrainian Supreme Council official Oleg Bondarenko paid tribute to those who extinguished the
00:20fire at the Chernobyl plant, saying they had saved the world from a radiation disaster.
00:26On the day of the memorial, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky emphasized the importance
00:32of protecting Ukrainian nuclear facilities from Russian attacks, including the Zaporizhia
00:37nuclear power plant, which was attacked for three days in a row in early April.
00:421986's Chernobyl disaster was the result of a flawed reactor design operated by under-trained
00:49staff. The accident killed two Chernobyl plant workers at the time, with many others dead
00:54within a few weeks as a result of acute radiation syndrome.
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