And Ukraine is holding commemorations today to mark the 30th anniversary of the worst nuclear disaster in history. The meltdown at the Chernobyl plant sent a cloud of radioactive fallout into Russia, Belarus and over a large portion of Europe. A vast rural region became uninhabitable, including the town of Pripyat, which remains abandoned. Lyudmila Kamkina, a former Chernobyl employee, spoke at a memorial ceremony in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.

Lyudmila Kamkina: “We did not think that this accident would change all our lives and our lives would be divided into 'before the war' and 'after the war,' as we called it. It was silent nuclear war for us, for those who lived there in Pripyat and who worked at the station.”

We’ll have more on Chernobyl later in the broadcast.