Source Gallery: https://izismile.com/2019/06/26/nature_takes_chernobyl_back_65_pics.html
Archived Source Gallery: https://web.archive.org/web/20240317193848/https://izismile.com/2019/06/26/nature_takes_chernobyl_back_65_pics.html
The gallery has more photos such as this.
You can clearly see that the “before” picture was taken years after the disaster…
The “after” is also fairly old - at least before the new safe confinement was built. Here’s what it looked like around 6 years ago:
(Apologies for the quality, on mobile and had to shrink it to get it to upload)
Or it could be the USSR where people cannot afford cars, there is no money for building mainenance and everyone is at work right now … /s
You can clearly see plants growing out of the concrete, based on the videos that exists of Pripyat from before the disaster that is not what it looked like.
Pripyat was a privileged town where people lived well.