Canada Journal – News of the World Articles and videos to bring you the biggest Canadian news stories from across the country every day
Incredible drone footage has been released that shows the abandoned remains of Pripyat, a Ukrainian city that was completely evacuated in the aftermath of the Chernobyl Disaster.
Danny Cooke travelled to Chernobyl and Pripyat in Ukraine, which is located near the power station, to create the video, Postcards from Pripyat, Chernobyl.
Around 50,000 people used to live in Pripyat, but it was evacuated after the disaster that killed 31 people and put large amounts of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, reports The Guardian.
Cooke filmed the video while working with a US news crew.
“Chernobyl is one of the most interesting and dangerous places I’ve been,” he says in the video’s sidebar.
“It caused so much distress hundreds of miles away, so I can’t imagine how terrifying it would have been for the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens who were forced to evacuate.”
Agencies/Canadajournal
