This is stated on the page of the State Agency on Facebook.
“In the area of the village of Chistogalovka, because of strong gusts of wind, the fire spread across the mineralized strip and the highway and, bypassing the section of the Red Forest,“ went out ”to the Yanov railway station,” the statement said.
As the Liga.net portal clarifies, this station is located approximately three kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Earlier, a member of the public council at the State Agency of Ukraine for the Management of the Exclusion Zone, Yaroslav Emelianenko, said that stalkers could cause fires in the Chernobyl zone.
On April 4, it was reported that a forest fire had begun in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. On the fact of the fire, the Ukrainian police opened a criminal case.
According to the latest data, rescuers continue to extinguish a fire in the territory of three forestries in the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.