Trying to figure out why the Russian military was so he!! bent on taking Chernobyl. I would think if they want to make a dirty bomb they could just bring one from the motherland. Or they are afraid that the Ukrainians would take some of the leftover material and make a dirty bomb to hand to Putin?
I heard there's another power plant there.
Gaining control of infrastructure.
What makes you think they'd use a dirty bomb? Russia has no interest in reigning over uninhabitable rubble. Ukraine was the breadbasket of the USSR, vast economic resources. They want it in tact.