{"id":927427,"date":"2026-04-30T00:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T00:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/927427\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T00:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T00:18:23","slug":"40-years-after-explosion-chernobyl-site-faces-new-threats-from-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/927427\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Years After Explosion, Chernobyl Site Faces New Threats From Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: 40 Years After Explosion, Chernobyl Site Faces New Threats From Russia<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Chernobyl_thumb_VC-jumbo.png\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>Forty years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, officials are grappling with the impact of a 2025 Russian drone strike that set back decades of efforts to contain it. Ukrainian officials said the Russians deliberately targeted the structure, but the Kremlin has denied responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>By McKinnon de Kuyper<\/p>\n<p>April 29, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: 40 Years After Explosion, Chernobyl Site Faces New Threats From Russia Forty years since the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7655],"tags":[41755,4609,41764,332],"class_list":["post-927427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-russia","tag-chernobyl","tag-international-relations","tag-radiation","tag-russia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116490791935394154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}