By 3 News online staff
A British documentary maker has put together a video using a drone that reveals the impact of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power station 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."
Watch the video for the full report.
source: newshub archive
