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Chernobyl survivors have paid the ultimate price in the Russia-Ukraine war

In a Kyiv apartment building housing the families of Chornobyl workers, a wartime tragedy strikes three friends preparing to mark 40 years since the nuclear accident.

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Joanna Kakissis is a foreign correspondent based in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she reports poignant stories of a conflict that has upended millions of lives, affected global energy and food supplies and pitted NATO against Russia.
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