destroyed, we had to go off-road, crossing rivers on pontoon bridges. finally, we reached the confinement dome of the power plant that wblew up in 1986, th worst nuclear accident ever. russian troops invaded this area on the very first day of their war against ukraine and took chernobyl without much of a fight. now that the russians have left, ukraine s interior minister took us to chernobyl and what we found was troubling. the russians imprisoned the security staff inside the plant s own bomb shelter, they tell us. no natural light, no fresh air, no communications. so the russians kept 169 ukrainians prisoner here the entire time they held this place. and then when the russians left, they looted and ransacked the place. among the prisoners, police officers, national guard members, and soldiers.