Rescue workers have contained a forest fire in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

In the exclusion zone in the Kyiv region, firefighters from the State Emergency Service contained a fire in the forest litter covering an area of 1 hectare and prevented the fire from spreading to larger areas. 

Radiation levels in the region remain within normal limits. 

This was reported by the State Emergency Service’s press office on Telegram.

On July 10, rescue workers fully extinguished a fire in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, which had been burning for two weeks.

A unique natural event took place in the center of the city of Chernobyl: six white storks landed simultaneously on the roof of an administrative building near the “Star of Wormwood” memorial. This is a sensational event, as the last time white storks nested in the city itself was twenty years ago.

As a reminder, the previous occupants—Odarka and Hrytsyk—returned on April 5–6 to the nest located within the “Pyriatyn” National Nature Park, where a new pair of storks—Kvitka and Lel—had formed on April 2.