Kinda old news. The russians effectively held Chernobyl and Chernobyl’s workers hostage, under the idea of we could cut off your power, and you’d be crazy to shell the hostage takers.

A lot of the soldiers were too young, and too propagandized to know that something happened there.

It also demonstrates that russian military is still so sadistic that they will throw their own people into the grinder just to take a strategic asset.