The dogs of Chernobyl, the city in Ukraine impacted by the 1986 ... dogs in the “greater Chernobyl area” descended from pets abandoned by evacuees in the 80s. Elaine Ostrander, study author ...

In reality, Chernobyl is less abandoned than outsiders might imagine ... regularly commutes into the exclusion zone from the nearby city of Slavutych, built after the meltdown for evacuated ...