India, Sept. 3 -- Pripyat river is being drained as part of the E40 inland navigation project to connect the Baltic and Black Seas

The dredging of the Pripyat river that flows near the site of the infamous nuclear accident at Chernobyl, could wreak havoc on an estimated 28 million people in Ukraine, the World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature has warned.

The Pripyat river flows from northwestern Ukraine to its confluence with the Dnieper river, Ukraine's most important river, on which its capital city of Kiev is located.

On April 26, 1986, a blast occurred at the No.4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat city in the then Soviet Ukraine. The Pripyat river passes through the exclusion zone established around the site. The ...