Ignatenko said that with Chernobyl, which aired in the U.S. back in May, came criticism of her actions, with people blaming her for the death of her child. “They were asking why I had been at my ...

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 ...