Shadow of the Reactor GA Tour leg 3

Leg 3 — UKON → UKKV

Nizhyn → Kyiv Antonov (Ukraine)

Returning toward Kyiv, now seeing it not as a distant city—but as a population unknowingly exposed.

Delay and Denial

Authorities hesitated.

Evacuation was not immediate. Information was controlled. Even as radiation levels rose, life continued for many—schools open, children playing, parades proceeding.

Kyiv would not evacuate. Not then.

From above, the city seems normal. Traffic flows. Buildings stand unchanged.

But the story beneath is one of delay… and the cost of it.