Drone reveals haunting view of Chernobyl's 'ghost city' from the air

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KIEV, Ukraine — A haunting, abandoned amusement park. The tarnished Soviet hammer and sickle emblem atop an empty apartment complex. A forest rising from the cracks of a city square. Not a soul in sight.

It's a sprawling, decaying landscape overgrown with vegetation, a ghost city frozen in time.

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Such is the view from a drone hovering over Ukraine's Chernobyl and the deserted city of Pripyat, home to one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.

Danny Cooke, a British filmmaker, captured the incredible aerial footage during a visit earlier this year while on assignment with CBS News' 60 Minutes to the nearly 1,000-square-mile radioactive area known as the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Read more...

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