imagine something else? also, i just want to follow up. if you don t have agreement for a meeting, why are you specifically suggesting a meeting at chernobyl. why is this so clear in your mind? there are a number of technical characteristics that make it advisable to do it there, to have a better idea and also to be more effective in diplomatic terms. it s very important to be there. of course, at the end of the day there might be many different formats, if you will. what we want to indicate here is the disposition of the iaea to move to do something about what is going on and not simply tweet
holmes and nic robertson. everyone no doubt breathe bing sigh of relief. chilling that russia seized nuclear power plants. reporter: yeah, exactly. as you were saying, this is europe s biggest nuclear power plant. six reactors, fortunately only one was operating at the time. the good news as you reported, five were put out without major incident. the what if factor quite likely sends chills down the spines of ukrainians and all of europe as you were just hearing in that sound you played. everyone remembers the 1986 chernobyl disaster. radiation levels are normal according to the iaa and the client itself. it is beyond disturbing. it is astounding that there is fighting around or directed at any nuclear plant.
a release. it depends on the weather, the winds. after the chernobyl catastrophe, the radiation was carried out as far as ireland, england. with the fallout still until rather recently early 2000, a number of farms in the u.k. and ireland were affected where they couldn t sell their produce. to this day in southern germany wild boar hunted in the woods is tested for radiation, to this day. so we re not only looking at the geography, we re looking at a time scale of decades that these consequences could last. that is pretty chilling. cnn has correspondents positioned across ukraine, russia, england, belgium, hungary s border to bring you up to the minute developments on russia s assault. i want to go live to michael
chernobyl catastrophe, the radiation was carried as far out as ireland and as as england. and with the fallout still to until rather recently i think, early 2000s, a number of farms in the uk and in ireland were affected. where they couldn t sell their produce. um, to this day in southern germany, wild boar hunted in the woods is tested for radiation to this day. so, we re not only looking at the geography. we are looking at a time scale of decades. um, that that these consequences could last. yeah. yeah. and ironically, would impact russia itself. mariana, thank you so much. really appreciate that. all right. now, a new video showing horrifying aftermath of a russian strike north of the capital kyiv.
to attack the nuclear power plant and putin s shelling of europe s largest nuclear plant takes his reign of terror one step further. russian people i want to appeal to you how is it possible after all we fought together against the chernobyl catastrophe consequences? tell your authorities, go to the streets and say you want to live. you want to live on earth without radioactive contamination. the attack on a nuclear power plant comes as russian forces move closer to the ukraine capital. russian defense minister released a video showing tanks and soldiers crossing into the kyiv region. there have been intense air campaigns in areas outside of kyiv with schools and residential buildings hit in the past 24 hours. the sheltion are indiscriminate. the images that we have don t even really give you a taste of what is happening across this country. there are cities in the