Radiation monitors near Chernobyl not working as EU accuses Russia of war crimes

Fighting for Mariupol has continued to be intense, even as the Russian offensive in other areas has floundered to the point where Western governments and analysts see the broader conflict grinding into a war of attrition

A man walks past a shelter covering the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant. File picture: AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky

Ukraine’s nuclear regulatory agency says the radiation monitors around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the site of the world’s worst meltdown in 1986, have stopped working.

In a statement Monday, the agency also said there are no longer firefighters available in the region to protect forests tainted by decades of radioactivity as the weather warms. The plant was seized by Russian forces on February 24.