Fox in Abandoned Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Makes a Sandwich

Ahead of the 29th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster on April 26, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reporters visited Pripyat, an abandoned city in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a 30km radius of contaminated land. Pripyat, with its empty buildings and abandoned amusement park, provides an eerie snapshot of a typical Soviet town before the fall of the Iron Curtain. For that reason, it has recently become a tourist destination.

This footage shows RFE/RL journalists feeding a fox as part of a report highlighting that the city has become a haven for wildlife. The fox, which appears unphased by the reporters, craftily makes a sandwich for himself out of bread and sausage. Credit: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty