


'I think they understood the risks, but they're just thick.' 70-year-old Chernobyl local Galyna Voloshnya said.Īround two weeks after arriving in the area, the Russians left to mount the failed attack on Kyiv in early April, leaving Chernobyl to its hauntingly quiet state. The Sunday Times reported that some of the very few elderly locals who live in the area and have become significantly blasé about the dangers surrounding them where particularly shocked at how the Russians would act. The Russians are also said to have fished in the reactor's cooling chamber, catching the catfish that swim in the destroyed nuclear base.īut others were struck down with radiation sickness from simply being in the area, walking around, and kicking up the dust.

Some suggested that Russian troops made their base there as they knew Ukrainian forces would not attack the area as they knew the catastophic dangers around the nuclear plant. 'It's the most dangerous territory in the special zone, because under the ground we have nuclear waste.' Russian soldiers are said to have spent two weeks with six mile vicinity of the radioactive reactor No 4, where they slept, ate, and drank. But how can you love someone who isn't always themself? It may not be easy, but Vaughn is determined to try.Speaking to The Sunday Times, Oksana Pyshna, 30, an official responsible for the exclusion zone, said 'don't try to find logic' regarding the upheaval of radioactive soil by Putin's men in Chernobyl's nearby forest. Vaughn's heart defies logic, and he finds himself falling in love with this strange new man. Little does he know, the man he meets during an impromptu decision to return to college is anything but ordinary. When his job doesn't offer the same thrill it once did, he decides it's time to mix-up his stagnant, boring routine. And Rain, a five-year-old child whose only concern is Batman. Theo, an asexual man of little emotion, whose focus is on maintaining order. Cove, a self-destructive terror, whose past haunts him. Cohen, a flamboyantly gay nineteen-year-old who is a social butterfly. Oryn shares his life and headspace with five distinctively different alters. He may look like a normal man on the outside, but spend five minutes with him, and his daily struggles begin to show. Being an extremely shy, social introvert is only part of the problem. Twenty-eight-year-old Oryn Patterson isn't like other people.
