The fire in the Chernobyl zone of Ukraine spread to Belarus
A forest fire in the “exclusion zone” of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant spread from the Ivankovsky district of the Kyiv region to the territory of Belarus - to the Khoiniki district of the Gomel region.
This information was confirmed today by the Belarusian Ministry of Emergency Situations, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“On September 12 at 13:34 p.m., a message was received about the discovery of a forest fire near the village of Lomysh, Gomel region. To extinguish the fire, 53 units of equipment and 283 people were involved, of which 32 units of equipment and 103 employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
The MI-26 helicopter of the State Aviation Administration of the Ministry of Emergency Situations carried out 10 water drops. As of 06:00 on September 13, the fire was localized. The area covered by the fire front is 50 hectares,” says a message posted on the official website.
Earlier, local residents posted photos of the fire in the “exclusion zone” on social networks.
In the Ivankovsky district of the Kyiv region, 6 hectares of forest litter burned. According to local police, it was possible to identify the suspect in the arson. She turned out to be a resident of the village. Starye Sokoly, Ivankovsky district. The woman set fire to the grass in order to take revenge on her former employers who allegedly did not pay her money.
In 2015, a large-scale forest fire occurred in the Chernobyl zone over an area of 400 hectares. Ukrainian and French ecologists then recorded a radioactive plume that spread over several tens of kilometers. The cause of the fire was also arson.
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