KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, ...

Efrem Lukatsky, a photographer for The Associated Press based in Kyiv, Ukraine, experienced the Chernobyl nuclear disaster firsthand on April 26, 1986, when he was living in the city. Over the past 40 ...

FILE - The highly contaminated control room for Reactor No. 4 is seen inside the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, Nov. 10, 2000. Engineers threw a switch at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, ...

Thirty years after families in northern Ukraine were forced to abandon their homes following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, Maxim Dondyuk began collecting their things. The Ukranian ...

Twenty-five years after a test went wrong in a control room of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, causing an explosion that destroyed Reactor 4's containment dome and triggering a serious radiation ...

Stained glass remains intact at this site near Chernobyl. Photographer Brook Ward became fascinated with Urbex (urban exploration) photography about eight years ago, after he spotted images of ...

Photographer Raul Moreno recently visited areas near the site of the Chernobyl breakdown. The following are impressions he shared with In Sight; they have been lightly edited for clarity: “It smells ...

When thinking of determination, consider the babushkas. Thirty-three years after the catastrophe at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, about 115 women, now mostly in their 80s and 90s – named for the ...

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KYIV, Ukraine — Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, ...