BREAKING: Russia Gives Ukraine Control Of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

BREAKING: We're learning that Russia has given control of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant back to Ukraine.

 Energoatom: Russian occupiers leaving Chornobyl nuclear plant and satellite city Slavutych. 

Ukraine’s state-run nuclear company said Russians headed north to the Ukrainian

borders with Belarus in two columns, but some still remain at the site of the plant.

Pentagon: Russian occupiers start to withdraw from Chornobyl nuclear power plant. 

AFP reported, citing an unnamed U.S. defense official, that Russia has begun pulling its troops out of the defunct nuclear power site after seizing control of the facility on Feb. 24.

“Chornobyl is (an) area where they are beginning to reposition some of their troops — leaving, walking away from the Chornobyl facility and moving into Belarus,” the official said.

Ukraine's state nuclear firm says Russian troops, hundreds, "received significant doses of radiation" at Chernobyl "and panicked at the first sign of illness...As a result, almost a riot broke out among the military, and they began to gather from there."

Ukraine's Armed Forces says Russians have withdrawn 700 units of military equipment from Kyiv overnight. 

But Moscow’s forces that still remain around the capital are “quite large.”