00:00As Ukraine marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, Ukrainian President Volodymyr
00:08Zelenskyy has accused Russia of committing nuclear terrorism. Zelenskyy said Russia is
00:13bringing the world to the brink of man-made disaster and referenced a Russian drone strike
00:19on the Chernobyl site last year. Ukrainians, meanwhile, gathered over the weekend to honor
00:25those who lost their lives, as well as those whose mission was to clean up after the disaster.
00:30On April 26, 1986, a human mistake made during a safety test led to an explosion at the nuclear
00:38plant in northern Ukraine. A UN report from 2005 estimated that 4,000 people died as a result of
00:46the accident, while Greenpeace puts the number closer to 100,000 people. Russian strikes on
00:52Ukraine continued on the 40th anniversary of the disaster, with at least three killed and
00:58four wounded overnight into Sunday. Two of the deaths were reported in the frontline northern
01:03eastern region of Sumy, while one person died in Dnipro, according to regional officials.
01:10In Russian-annexed Crimea, a man was killed in a Ukrainian attack, its Moscow-installed governor said.
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