In the initial stages of the military conflict, Belarus lent its territory to Russians for them to attack, but did not seem to have sent its soldiers to the conflict. On the day of invasion, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reported about Russian troops trying to break through the Belarus-Ukraine border at the Vilcha border crossing,[9] and a helicopter without identification marks attacking a bridge near Slavutych.[10] CNN published a video showing tanks entering Ukraine through the Senkivka border crossing, on the tripoint with Russia.[11] Also on that day, Chernobyl, together with the nearby former nuclear power plant, was seized after Russian troops entered Ukraine from Belarus via the unpopulated Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.[4]