Press
What journalists in Ukraine and abroad have written about us. The links lead to the original publications.
The strike on the Chornobyl museum and shop, May 2026
- kyiv24.newsThe museum looks for a temporary home, and the team for a way to reopen the shop
- 1+1, Breakfast with 1+1Why photo shoots against ruins anger people: Kateryna Aslamova on ethics at strike sites
- GlavkomThe Chornobyl museum destroyed, and volunteers caught a looter in the building next door
- Vogue UAWhich Kyiv museums and theaters were hit on May 24; Yaroslav Yemelianenko comments
- RBC-UkraineMissiles over St. Sophia: the strike on the Chornobyl museum, told by Yaroslav Yemelianenko, who saw them from his window
- NVThe National Chornobyl Museum damaged in a night attack
- 5 KanalThe President visits the damaged Chornobyl museum
The invasion, the Dytiatky camera, the Red Forest
- RBC-UkraineWhy Chornobyl NPP workers go back to the plant; Yaroslav Yemelianenko on the Red Forest
- TelegrafA long interview with Yaroslav Yemelianenko: the liberation of the Zone, the cameras, a BRDM-2 and the search for relatives
- Suspilne KyivThe Chornobyl Zone a year after liberation: how safe is it
- Ukrainian Catholic UniversityThe occupied Zone and the Red Forest trenches as the world's first case of international nuclear terrorism
- LSM (Latvia)A portrait against the war: Yaroslav, a volunteer from the Chornobyl Zone
- Associated Press (Yahoo News)An unexpected war warning system: the CHORNOBYL TOUR camera at the Dytiatky checkpoint
- Novyi ChernihivThe Exclusion Zone after liberation: how the team helped the army
- Chas NewsWill the Zone do to the occupiers what the army had no time to do: a talk with Yaroslav Yemelianenko
- IFLScienceTrenches in the Red Forest: an information operation that helped drive the russian invaders out of the Zone
- Radio SvobodaThree weeks before the invasion: Yaroslav Yemelianenko is ready to hand his armored vehicles to the state
- National Resistance CenterThe Exclusion Zone of resistance: how Chornobyl guides passed on data from the occupied Zone
The Resistance 2022 exhibition and our work in Kyiv
- WORLD RadioA podcast for the 40th anniversary of the accident, What Chernobyl exposed: Kateryna Aslamova and Sergii Mirnyi
- ArmyInformSergii Mirnyi on serving in radiation reconnaissance in 1986
- Kyiv PostSergii Mirnyi on the Zone and the liquidation as they really were
- Ukrainian World CongressThe first Ukrainian radio in New Zealand; Yaroslav Yemelianenko and Kateryna Aslamova among the guests
- HSMAI EuropeKateryna Aslamova among the Ukrainian hospitality professionals invited to the association's program
- NaUKMAThe Chornobyl experience for coping with the psychological aftermath of war: a meeting with Sergii Mirnyi
- Gazeta.uaThe Resistance 2022 exhibition of destroyed russian equipment opens on Andriivskyi Descent
Chornobyl tourism
- NashKiev.UAHow the lockdown and the wildfires hit Chornobyl tourism: an interview with Yaroslav Yemelianenko
- LB.uaColumn by Yaroslav Yemelianenko, The only unique tourism in Ukraine. Now or never: why the Zone's sites should be nominated to UNESCO
- The Globe PostA radioactive adventure: how the team built a tour of the series' filming locations in a week
- Kyiv PostThe Chernobyl series sparks interest in Ukraine's history
- CBC (Canada)The popularity of the HBO series drives a tourism boom in Chornobyl
- Fox NewsAfter the HBO series, demand for Chornobyl trips grew by 40%
- Lonely PlanetEntering the dragon's lair: a trip through Chornobyl with CHORNOBYL TOUR
- Al JazeeraFrom nuclear disaster to a tourism boom: a photo story featuring Sergii Mirnyi
- ObozrevatelChornobyl, there and back again: a report from the Zone with CHORNOBYL TOUR
- Obozrevatel"A Ukrainian Las Vegas in Chornobyl? I don't believe it": a long interview with Yaroslav Yemelianenko
- NVAn alienated life: a special report from the Chornobyl Zone
- Traveller (The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age)A night in the Exclusion Zone: a journalist stays with CHORNOBYL TOUR
UNESCO and the heritage of the Zone
- Tagesschau (ARD)The 35th anniversary: Ukraine prepares a UNESCO bid; a talk with Yaroslav Yemelianenko
- Vechirnii KyivHow the Zone is being prepared for a UNESCO nomination
- UkrinformA museum of liquidators' machinery to open in Prypiat; initiated by Yaroslav Yemelianenko
- Radio SvobodaColumn by Yaroslav Yemelianenko: Chornobyl tourism during the pandemic, UNESCO and the university
- Official website of the President of UkraineSergii Mirnyi's petition for UNESCO status for the Zone's sites
- Radio SvobodaThe anniversary of the accident; Sergii Mirnyi comments
Returnees, wildfires, science
- The ScientistA new Chornobyl initiative: Sergii Mirnyi and the Chornobyl University
- RMF24 / PAP (Poland)35 years after the disaster the Zone is not empty: help for returnees from the team and tourists
- Der SpiegelWildfires in the Exclusion Zone; Yaroslav Yemelianenko comments
- BellonaReflections of a Chornobyl liquidator: a talk with Sergii Mirnyi
TV appearances
- Apostrophe TV"Is it a coincidence that the missile hit our history?"
- DIM TVFifteen minutes on the strike on the museum and the shop
- Kyiv TVLive from the site where the missile hit the Chornobyl museum
- BBC NewsKateryna Aslamova live on the work of the rapid response team
- Kyiv TVS.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 and CHORNOBYL RAY: Yaroslav Yemelianenko and Kateryna Aslamova
- Kyiv TVDebris from Andriivskyi Descent becomes part of the Resistance exhibition