Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Ukraine Seizes Lyman, Russian Lines in Disarray!" video.

I'm convinced they didn't actually know. Before the 2019 drama series many people did not realize that the soil was turned over to contain the fallout. The maps they used for the invasion were from the 1960s so the exclusion zone was not marked. The contract soldiers are just 19-20 year olds who probably didn't even learn about Chernobyl at school, and even if they had they probably had no idea the place they were at was the Chernobyl plant.
6
@thefreik I remembered something: the Stalker games have the old sarcophagus that only covers the reactor and the building is still exposed. The new containment structure covers the iconic building. And the Russian gamers pissed off at the GSC devs was hilarious. They were posting online that they would pirate Stalker 2 to avoid paying, mod the Russian language into it, etc.
2