A couple weeks ago a Wagner source told me of a hastily out together new PMC, owned by a son-in-law of a GRU general, and set up to get a piece of the money pie available during the war. A unit numbering approx 200 was stationed in Pripyaty /1
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They stationed them in old condemned apartment blocks, seemingly unaware of the risks. A couple days later a wounded merc ended up in a Belarus clinic, causing the Geiger counter to almost break. The rest of the mercs, hearing of this, deserted in panic. MoD were looking for them
When I shared this with a Ukrainian journalist, he joked "so we don't need night visors to find then, as they glow green naturally".
Incidentally, a direct quote from a Pravda editorial on the "non-existent" Chernobyl threat from April 1986. Uncanny how little has changed in the style of Russian/Soviet official lies. 
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