Haunting photos reveal the deserted town devastated by the Chernobyl power station catastrophe on April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear disaster to date.

The large nuclear station no longer produces power but before the invasion, nearly 6,000 workers were monitoring the effects of the catastrophic meltdown more than three decades ago.

Chernobyl is no longer used as a power station but must be carefully monitored (Picture: Getty) The 1986 meltdown is one of the worst nuclear disasters in history (Picture: Getty) ...

At 1:23 am on April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - located in the Soviet Republic of Ukraine and considered to have been the pride of the Soviet Union - began what was supposed to ...

Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant and all the facilities in the Chernobyl exclusion zone have been completely disconnected and are now without electricity, Ukraine’s state energy company has ...

It took only hours for the Russian invasion of Ukraine to hang a nuclear threat over Europe. But the defunct Chernobyl power plant may pose less of a hazard than the forest surrounding it, or the ...

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, damaged sarcophagus that covers the destroyed 4th reactor of Chernobyl nuclear power plant is seen from inside following a Russian drone ...

The invasion has raised questions about Chernobyl, infamous for the worst nuclear disaster in history. On April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl's Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Station ...

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been captured by Russian forces, an adviser to the Ukrainian presidential office said today. The site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster has seen intense ...

It was a solitary 10-foot pump that saved Germany from a nuclear meltdown on the scale of Chernobyl. A decade before the infamous 1986 Soviet Union power plant explosion was turning people's skin ...

Ukraine’s closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been disconnected from the nation’s power grid by Russian forces, Ukraine’s state-owned grid operator Ukrenergo said Wednesday, potentially ...