Pripyat, Ukraine – Machine gun fire echoed through the abandoned buildings of Pripyat in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, as Ukrainian National Guard troops on Friday staged urban combat exercises.
The live-fire training — carried out in one of the most radioactive places on earth — came as warnings swirl over a potential Russian invasion.
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