Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

Strikes across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia have killed at least 16 people. The attacks on Sunday coincided ...

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation ...

Firefighters trying to prevent the Chernobyl nuclear disaster received more than a lethal dose of radiation in less than five ...

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

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the ...

It was 1.23am when disaster struck. A routine safety test led to a catastrophic explosion. Poor design and inadequate safety procedures saw radioactive material scattered around the globe. In just 48 ...

Her husband was one of the first firefighters at Chernobyl. She was six months pregnant. The fourteen days that followed are ...

The Night That Never Ended Forty years have passed – but for many, the night of April 26, 1986, never truly ended. It began ...