Maria Gudzii still recalls her sadness when she was forced to evacuate with her family after a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine exploded in April 1986 in what became one of the world's worst nuclear accidents.Thirty-six years on, Gudzii has once again had to flee her home -- but this time, leaving her country, now in the third month of the Russian invasion, to seek refuge on the other side of the world in Japan.Gudzii, 68, lived alone in Kyiv after losing her 62-year-old husband Myhailo in 2012 to cancer caused by radiation from the accident at the Chernobyl …READ FULL ARTICLE
