Russian troops have left Chernobyl town: Mayor

Russian troops have left Chernobyl town

Russian forces have reportedly left a town they seized just outside the nuclear plant Chernobyl after protests from residents.

Qazet.az reports according to a Reuters that, Mayor Yuri Fomichev said in an online video post on Monday that troops had completed the work "they had set out to do" and had left the town of Slavutych.

Russian forces had on Saturday took control of Slavutych and briefly detained the mayor.

But their occupation was protested by hundreds of local Ukrainians who took to the streets bearing flags, and he was later released.