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CHORNOBYL, Ukraine — The Russian soldiers who invaded Chornobyl in late February did things that mystified Oleksandr Toporovsky.
They dug trenches in radiation-contaminated soil, defecated in offices and spray-painted Illuminati symbols on walls.
But it’s the kettles that confound Toporovsky.
A lieutenant colonel in the National Guard of Ukraine, which defends the decommissioned Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, he asked himself why soldiers would steal electric kettles, but leave behind the…
