Russia making its own Chernobyl TV drama ‘blaming CIA saboteur’ for nuke disaster after incredible success of Sky Original show
RUSSIA is plotting to make its own version of Sky Atlantic's critically acclaimed series Chernobyl — in which it blames the CIA for the nuclear catastrophe.
The five-part drama ended on Monday and laid bare the terrifying consequences of the 1986 nuclear disaster in Pripyat, Ukraine.
And now the state-backed TV channel NTV is filming its own version of the disaster.
Alexei Muradov, director of the upcoming Russian drama, told the newspaper his story will be based on a conspiracy theory that "Americans had infiltrated the Chernobyl nuclear power plant" and caused the blast.
The series will follow a group of Soviet KGB officers tasked with uncovering a CIA agent stationed at the Chernobyl nuclear plant and involved in espionage.
Mr Muradov said: "Many historians do not deny that, on the day of the explosion, an agent of the enemy's intelligence services was present at the station.”
According to the Russia's culture ministry has part-funded the series by providing the production company with 30 million rubles (£362,000).
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