'I was the last person in Chernobyl's control room and will never get over what I saw'
- Posted on January 30, 2026
- By The Daily Star
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'I was the last person in Chernobyl's control room and will never get over what I saw'

Oleksiy Breus entered Chernobyl's control room hours after the 1986 disaster and witnessed colleagues dying from radiation as his own skin turned brown like a suntan.