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A Ferris wheel in an abandoned amusement park in what once was the town of Pripyat, in the Chernobyl exclusion zone in northern Ukraine, April 8, 2026. Ideas have been floated for how the contaminated zone could bring economic benefits to Ukraine, but, for the foreseeable future, it will be an army-controlled security belt. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times/Fotoarena)
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