fully explained. now tonight russia is facing new questions over the recent explosion at a missile testing site, after telling a nuclear monitoring group to stay out of it. we have more from nbc s bill neely. a growing mystery tonight about exactly what happened days after a nuclear explosion. killed five russian nuclear scientists. at least for radiation monitoring stations nearby went silent. and stop transmitting data. russia told international nuclear watchdog today, mind your own business. russia admitted radiation levels did spike briefly after the accident. which was tied to the testing of a nuclear missile engine. president putin said yesterday there is no threat. no risk of increased radiation. but the kremlin is also furious. an international nuclear watchdog tweeted this map of a potential radiation plume spreading across russia. the kremlin calls that of
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nuclear disaster at chernobyl. that disaster of course have a 1986 and chernobyl has been the most radioactive place on earth ever since. chernobyl is also inside ukraine. and you may remember that at the very start of russia s invasion of ukraine. chernobyl is one of the first places that putin sent in russian soldiers to occupy. now why putin s and russian soldiers to occupy chernobyl we still don t really understand. but we re finally now starting to get a better idea of what the russians did while they were at that site. this is from the associated press, daylight for noble ukraine. quote, in the early hours of russia s invasion of ukraine in february, thousands of tanks and troops rumbled into the forested chernobyl exclusion zone. turning up highly contaminated soil from the site of the 1986 accident that was the world s worst nuclear disaster. in the dirt of one of the world s most react to places, russian soldiers dug trenches.
solidarity with russia. now again, keep in mind the timing here, this is february this year. this was the time of the whole world was on tenterhooks expecting that putin was about to start a big war and invade ukraine. and there is brazil s president hopping into putin s proverbial lap. he goes to moscow, does this big three day official trip to moscow, has this big meeting, this big photo op with putin. he denied that putin would launch any war in ukraine. for good measure he explained how brazil was closer than ever to russia. don t worry world putin is great. he s not going to do anything bad. he s my guy. one week later of course putin invaded ukraine. which was awkward for the brazilian president. but now today, brazil s president has decided that he will handle that very embarrassing turn of events the way i m sure we all wish we could. he has decided that he will dump it down the memory hole
today, on le pen support for vladimir putin and having to shred the million-plus campaign leaflets she made showing her sinking hands with putin at the kremlin. on the point of her taking literally millions of dollars from a kremlin linked bank to fund her campaign. at least on those points today, at the debate, she got her proverbial derrière handed to her by macron. like i said, there was a voice over translated into english in realtime a version of this debate. and so you can actually follow along, you can hear how it went, we re going to have some of that coming up for you in just a couple of minutes. that was a very big deal. a couple of years ago in the late summer of 2019, we spent a bunch of time on the show covering something that was basically a mystery. it was definitely a little bit scary at the time. and even though this happened two and a half years ago now, it is something that still today hasn t ever really been