For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com<br />Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision<br />Add us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevision<br /><br />25 year after the Chernobyl disaster, a special exhibition in Kiev presents declassified Soviet documents relating to the accident. Our Ukraine correspondents are shocked by the scale of the cover up.<br /><br />Previously unknown documents from the Soviet era relating to the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station are presented in Kyiv.<br /><br />The State Archive Service has assembled more than one hundred orders and letters by the then authorities, many labeled "secret."<br /><br />[Svetlana Vlasenko, State Archive Service]:<br />"The documents help to trace the timeline of the accident and its consequences, and we hope they will also honor the memory of those affected by the disaster."<br /><br />The exposition begins with photographs of Pripyat - the town built for Chernobyl workers.<br /><br />[Svetlana Vlasenko, State Archive Service]:<br />"It was a vibrant city. There's nothing foreshadowing trouble."<br /><br />After the accident, the city became a ghost town... but when the explosion first occurred, it took three days for any media reports to come out.<br /><br />A brief message, approved at the highest level, was: "An accident happened at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, one of the reactors is damaged. Measures have been taken. Victims are assisting a government commission to investigate."<br /><br />Not a word about the extent of the accident, not a word about the threat of radiation.<br /><br />Completely ignorant to the risk, just a few days after the explosion, children gather for May Day celebrations in Kyiv. Graphs show that on this day radiation levels were the highest.<br /><br />Of course, like much other data, this information was not available at the time.
