Meet the Only Child Born and Raised in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Radioactive contaminated vehicles lay dormant near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on Nov. 10, 2000. Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo

The only baby who was born inside of Chernobyl’s exclusion zone following the nuclear disaster is now nearly 20 years old.

Mariyka Sovenko, whose last name was not disclosed, was born and raised in the extremely polluted exclusion zone in Ukraine, according to the Daily Mail, which said she is the only child known to have been born there.