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President Volodymyr Zelensky visits the Chernobyl exclusion zone and addresses Ukrainians to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster. The exclusion zone is a 30-kilometre (20-mile) radius around the nuclear power plant that was evacuated in the aftermath of an explosion and was deemed unsafe for humans to live for thousands of years. IMAGES
Chernobyl (Ukraine), Apr 22 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Sergey Dolzhenko) Ukrainian authorities are preparing to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl tragedy, on April 26. FOOTAGE OF CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE IN UKRAINE.
On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl's Nuclear Power Plant in the former Soviet Union exploded. An army of 800,000 emergency workers had to decontaminate the affected area: earning the name of 'liquidators'.
Kiev, Oct 3 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Sergey Dolzhenko) Ukrainians commemorated on Sunday the 80th anniversary of the massacre of Jews carried out by the Nazis in the Babin Yar ravine in Kiev, where some 34,000 Jews were murdered for two days in September 1941. In all, more than 100,000 people lost their lives in Babin Yar between 1941 and 1943.FOOTAGE OF THE COMMEMORATION.
Buenos Aires, Jun 22 (EFE).- Thirty five years after Diego Maradona scored the 'Goal of the Century' against England in the quarterfinals of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, Argentinians on Tuesday replayed the moment through their speakers to honor the soccer star who died in November.The initiative, promoted by the Argentine Football Association (AFA), consisted of shouting the goal at 4.09 pm local time (19:09 GMT), exactly 35 years after 'Pelusa' converted the second of the two goals with which Argentina beat England 2-1. (Camera: ALBERTO CARATOZZOLO).SHOT LIST: ARGENTINE PEOPLE GATHER TO COMMEMORATE DIEGO MARADONA'S 'GOAL OF THE CENTURY' AGAINST ENGLAND IN THE QUARTERFINALS OF THE 1986 WORLD CUP, IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA.SOUND BITE: HERNÁN ZYSESKIND, SPORTS REPORTER. TRANSLATION: Today we are commemorating the 35th anniversary of the most important goal of Argentina's history and of the world, in a match that meant so much to Argentina. Because if one goes back in time, the 1986 world cup in mexico was a few years after the Falklands War, and that was something special for the entire country.