Her baby died just hours after being born, according to the BBC, suffering radiation from proximity to Vasily while still in the womb. Ignatenko said that with Chernobyl, which aired in the U.S ...

The HBO/Sky series Chernobyl won three Emmys and brought the story of the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine to a new audience. But the woman at the centre of it, Lyudmila Ignatenko, the wife of one ...