Nataliia Khodemchuk suffered 45 per cent burns and died later in hospital. Photograph: Facebook/State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management
The widow of the first Soviet engineer to die in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion was killed in Russia’s massive drone and missile attack on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy described Nataliia Khodemchuk as the victim of a “new tragedy caused by the Kremlin”, nearly four decades after her husband, Valerii, was killed inside Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor number four.
Valerii was the only plant worker
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