Young victims continue to receive treatment in Cuba two decades after Ukrainian nuclear disaster Ukrainian victims of the fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Cuba for treatment. More than 18,000 have been treated since 1990. Photograph: Claudia Daut/Reuters Eleven-year-old Olga enters the beach house in flip-flops, her hair still wet from a dip in the Caribbean. "I really like it here," she says. "The food is great, the beach is awesome. I made some fantastic friends." A typical child's reaction to a beach holiday, perhaps – only this is no ordinary seaside break. Olga is a Ukrainian "Chernobyl child", in Cuba not for a holiday but to undergo intensive medical treatment with some of the country's best doctors. She goes to school here along with 180 other Ukrainian children. "I miss some bits of my home town," she... [read full story]
