00:00Also hundreds of people participated on Sunday in a commemoration ceremony at a Moscow cemetery
00:05to pay tribute to those who died from deadly radiation exposure while trying to contain
00:11the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident 40 years ago.
00:15Dozens of people were killed in the immediate aftermath of the disaster while 30 workers
00:20died within months from either the explosion or acute radiation sickness.
00:25However, the long-term death toll from radiation poisoning is believed to number in the thousands.
00:31The accident exposed the millions in the region to dangerous levels of radiation
00:36and forced a wide-scale permanent evacuation of hundreds of towns and villages in Ukraine and Belarus.
00:43About 600,000 people, often referred to as Chernobyl's liquidators,
00:48were sent in to fight the fire at the nuclear plant and clean up the worst of its contamination.
00:58Those who perished, those who are no longer with us, are heroes who must never be forgotten.
01:04These people understood exactly what they were getting themselves into.
01:11Admittedly, there were perhaps a couple of those who refused, who did not want to go to the plant,
01:16but for the most part, everyone was eager to rush in, ready to shield the site with their very bodies.
01:24I don't recall the exact number now, either 14 or 16 officers under my command.
01:29Today, only three of them remain alive. It was not a life of ease that claimed them.
01:34Naturally, there is a sense of the immense tragedy that befell us back then.
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