Slavutych (Ukraine) (AFP) – Nikolay Solovyov was on shift the night of April 26, 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. He remembers the disaster as a war. By dawn, he and his colleagues were already counting down what they believed were their final days. “We’ll last two weeks,” he recalls someone saying. Four decades later, a second war, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has claimed his son. “I’d rather not remember anything, so as not to get upset,” the 67-year-old tells AFP.
