'It was anarchy': a family reflects on the Chernobyl disaster, 30 years on

Three generations explain how their lives were transformed by the nuclear explosion in 1986

It was just a regular day for Anastasia Fedosenko. It was spring, a busy time for local farmers. Nobody told her about the explosion at first.

"It was only on the third day that they said something had happened at the Chernobyl plant, but nobody knew what exactly. They evacuated pregnant women and mothers with children under five, but the rest of us just continued our normal routine, feeding and milking cows," the 73-year-old recalls.