On Sunday, Ukrainian authorities reported a rise in radiation levels in the closed area near the Chernobyl station, which witnessed one of the worst nuclear accidents in the world, as a result of a fire that broke out in neighboring forests.
"There is bad news, the radiation is higher than normal at the fire center," the director of the government's Environmental Inspection Service, Igor Versov, said in a post on Facebook.
The brochure included a video clip of the Geiger counter, which showed that the radiation level exceeded sixteen times the normal levels.
Versov stated that the fire spread over about 100 hectares of forest.
Kiev sent two planes, helicopters and about 100 firefighters to fight the fire that broke out on Saturday in the forests surrounding the Chernobyl station.
On Sunday, the emergency services initially reassured that any increase in the level of radiation was not recorded, after Saturday indicated that the high level of radiation had led to "difficulties" in facing the fire in some areas.
The authorities confirmed that people living in close proximity are not in danger.
Chernobyl station polluted large parts of Europe after its fourth reactor exploded in 1986. The area around the station was further damaged. And the authorities prevent the residence within 30 kilometers of the station.
The remaining three reactors at the plant continued to generate electricity until they were finally closed in 2000. A protective dome was built around the fourth reactor in 2016.
Fires are common in the forests adjacent to the station.
The Chernobyl disaster has had health and environmental ramifications that have had a clear impact on the area around the reactor.