Chernobyl is running out of electricity, Ukraine said Wednesday. Generators at the site of the world’s greatest nuclear accident, now under the control of the Russian military, could only keep running for 48 hours. A countdown to another nuclear disaster. Meanwhile Russia says the plant has been connected to the power grid of neighboring Belarus.
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