Christmas tree decorated in Chernobyl 'ghost town'
Former residents returned to the abandoned city to decorate the tree
A Christmas tree has been put up for the first time since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the central square of the nearby"ghost town" of Pripyat, Ukraine's ZIK TV channel reports. Once home to more than 47,000 residents, Pripyat - about 3km from the former nuclear plant - remains deserted because of radiation pollution.
Former residents came to the abandoned city to decorate the tree with family photos as part of a campaign organised by the Association of Chernobyl Tour Operators. Some of them told Suspilne.Media that they had also brought clock decorations as a"symbol of the flow of time and the fact that over time the town does not die but gets revived".
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