""When I see someone's things there, I always think about mine. About what remained in my home. About the life that was interrupted.""
""The nuclear disaster cannot be measured only in radiation levels or the tons of concrete and steel used to create the sarcophagus that now covers the site. It is someone's health, someone's time, someone's family.""
The Chernobyl disaster led to the evacuation of over 300,000 people from surrounding areas. Nadiia Mudryk-Mochalova, who fled to Chornobyl in 2019, reflects on her own displacement and the memories of those who left Pripyat in 1986. Working in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, she connects the abandoned homes and personal belongings to her own lost life in Luhansk. The disaster's consequences are not just physical but deeply personal, affecting health, time, and family connections.
Read at The Washington Post
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