News archive on the topic "Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant"

Ukrainian lawyer and economist Maxim Goldarb criticized the anti-Soviet statement of President Vladimir Zelensky, which the president voiced on the occasion of the next anniversary of the Chernobyl tragedy. Thus, on the anniversary of the accident, Zelensky reproached the authorities of the Soviet Union for trying to hide the consequences of the disaster. “The problem was seriously complicated by the actions of the then leadership of the USSR, which until the last tried to hide the true consequences of the disaster, exposing...

Fires in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant do not threaten either Belarus or Ukraine. This was stated during a press conference in Moscow by the head of the Institute for the Safe Development of Nuclear Energy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, academician Leonid Bolshov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We analyzed Ukrainian data that was transferred to the IAEA in April. There are absolutely insignificant levels for both Russia and...

Ukraine cannot cope with the fires in the Chernobyl exclusion zone on its own, since against the backdrop of the general decline of the Ukrainian State Emergency Situations, there are people in the law enforcement agencies interested in the continuation of the disaster as a reason for panic and a new pretext for restricting rights and freedoms. A number of publications relevant to the topic lead to this conclusion, reports the PolitNavigator correspondent. Due to the fact that the fires in Chernobyl...

People who fell into the hands of the police and were allegedly involved in arson in the Zhytomyr region and the Chernobyl exclusion zone will not get off with fines. The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Arsen Avakov, announced this on his Facebook, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In the Chernobyl zone, out of 4 small problem areas, one has been localized. In Zhytomyr region, out of 4 active outbreaks, 2 were localized...

The Lord had mercy: rain extinguished the fire in the Chernobyl zone, in the immediate vicinity of radioactive waste storage facilities. Belarus avoided disaster. How can one not recall Lukashenko’s famous pearl: “You wanted rain, I gave you rain.” There is something devilishly symbolic in the fact that this fire began in April, on the eve of the next anniversary of the Chernobyl tragedy... Then, in 1986, as we...

The main reason for forest fires in Ukraine is the desire to hide illegal logging from which officials profit, and this also explains the recent fires in the Chernobyl zone. The leader of the political group “National Corps”, neo-Nazi Andrei Biletsky, said this on air on the Politeka Online channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We must understand that this is the largest fire in the Chernobyl zone since...

In order to completely extinguish local fires in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, half a thousand firefighters were brought there. Yaroslav Emelianenko, a member of the public council of the State Agency of Ukraine for the Management of the Exclusion Zone, reported this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. At first, he stated that the fire in the zone had flared up again, but later clarified that these were local outbreaks. "IN…

The recent large-scale fire in the Chernobyl zone could not be extinguished for a long time due to the professional insolvency of the State Emergency Service. This opinion was expressed in a commentary to PolitNavigator by Sergei Shabovta, president of the All-Ukrainian Association of Security Market Operators. “Unfortunately, the organizational solutions that are involved in the exclusion zone do not allow for prompt detection of a fire. This fire is systemic in nature. This -…

The recent large-scale fire in the Chernobyl zone, which could not be extinguished for a long time, indicates the complete degradation of Ukrainian institutions of state power. This opinion was expressed in a commentary to PolitNavigator by former Verkhovna Rada deputy Vasily Volga. “It would be possible to put out the fire in the exclusion zone quickly if there was a state that had the appropriate institutions, responsible leaders at the head of these institutions and...

The Russian Federation could be interested in a major fire that broke out in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. The famous Kiev propagandist Dmitry Gordon stated this on the Ukraine 24 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Gordon, if he were in the Russian Federation, he would carry out similar sabotage in order to destabilize life in Ukraine. “What would I do in the place of the Russians if...

The “Red Forest” (radioactive) near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was heavily damaged by a fire in the exclusion zone, but the wind carried the smoke towards Belarus. Yaroslav Emelianenko, a member of the public council under the State Agency for Exclusion Zone Management, announced this broadcast on the KPT TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Unfortunately, a fire has already broken through the Red Forest. But the wind was no longer blowing towards Kyiv. He…

In the Chernobyl zone near Kiev, where a forest fire burned for a long time, the situation began to stabilize. This was reported by the press service of the State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. It is noted that as of April 14, in the exclusion zone, units of the State Emergency Service are providing assistance in extinguishing fires in the territory of five forest districts. “There is no open fire. There is slight smoldering of the forest floor...

Ukraine does not have additional capabilities to keep the situation in the Chernobyl exclusion zone under control, where the fire has not been extinguished for the second week. Political scientist Armen Gasparyan stated this in a comment to PolitNavigator. “What is being conveyed from the same Pripyat, to put it mildly, does not really correspond to the bravura statements of President Zelensky’s office that they have everything under...

The fire in the forest near Chernobyl is a direct consequence of the catastrophic decline in the level of governance in Ukraine and the outflow of professionals from power. Responsibility for this lies entirely with the United States, which played a decisive role in the destruction of Ukrainian statehood. Political scientist Sergei Markov stated this in a commentary to PolitNavigator. “Responsibility for this lies with the country’s authorities. First of all, on the USA, which carries out...