Forty years after the world's worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl and the ghost city of Pripyat continue to evoke a chilling fascination, with abandoned children's items serving as poignant reminders of the past.

As the world marks four decades since the Chernobyl nuclear accident, a rally in Sydney commemorates the event and discusses ongoing nuclear risks, while the BBC visits Pripyat, the ghost city abandoned in 1986, to document the site 40 years on.

A couple shares their memories of getting married in Pripyat just kilometers away from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, an event that profoundly changed their lives.

This article recounts the story of Iryna and Serhiy, a couple who got married in Pripyat on the day of the Chernobyl disaster, just four kilometers from the open reactor.