Another attempt to point score without understanding the posting?
The intent of my posting was to suggest that the Law of Unintended Consequences could affect Russian forces and civilians in the occupied territories (and perhaps further away) as much as the use of tactical nuclear weapons affected those in the target area/s.
It is true that on April 26 and 27, the winds at Chernobyl were not blowing from north to south, but from April 29th they were - which is why maps of the areas contaminated by radioactive fallout from the disaster site include the-then Soviet Union republics of Bielorussia (Belarus) and the RSFSR as far west as Moscow (see, e.g.,
https://www.bfs.de/EN/topics/ion/acc...ces.html)..For example, "By the end of the summer of 1986, Moscow hospitals alone had treated about 15,000 people exposed to Chernobyl radiation. The Soviet republics of Ukraine and Belarus combined to treat about 40,000 patients in hospitals due to radiation exposure in the same period of time; in Belarus, about half were children" (
https://news.mit.edu/2019/chernobyl-...ival-book-0306). I believe that the end of August is seen as the end of summer in Russia, so that means that in about 4 months at least some 55,000 people were treated for the effects of radioactive fallout in the former Soviet Union.Given that the former Soviet Union government was reluctant to acknowledge the accident or its effects, I suspect the true number to be higher.
The same could occur with fallout from tactical nuclear weapons.