Shadow of the Reactor GA Tour leg 6

Leg 6 — UKEE → UMGG

Chernihiv (Ukraine) → Gomel (Belarus)

Crossing into Belarus—one of the hardest-hit regions.

Belarus: The Forgotten Impact

While Chernobyl sits in Ukraine, nearly 70% of the fallout landed in Belarus.

Entire regions were contaminated. Villages erased. Lives uprooted.

Gomel became a center of long-term consequence—radiation illnesses, displacement, and generational health effects.

As you cross the border, there is no visible line marking the transition.

But historically… this is where the devastation deepened.