The article says: "The troops, who dug trenches in a contaminated Red Forest near the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history, are now reportedly being tr

The article says: "The troops, who dug trenches in a contaminated Red Forest near the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history, are now reportedly being treated in a special medical facility in Gomel, Belarus." That site in Gomel can be found with a quick web search: http://www.rcrm.by/eng/center.html http://www.rcrm.by/eng/center.html - and their mission is: "health improvement of the population exposed to multi-component and prolonged radiation effects following the Chernobyl catastrophe including other negative anthropogenic and man-caused environmental factors." So, it's not an ordinary hospital, and if lots of Russian soldiers were indeed taken there, it indicates that they might have needed care for radiation sickness.