“According to preliminary estimates, about 11.5 thousand hectares of the southwestern part of the reserve were affected, which is about 5% of the reserve. Of these, forests - about 35%, deposits - 55%, wetlands - 10%. According to preliminary zoning, these are predominantly anthropogenic load zones and buffer zones, ”Ukrinform quoted her as saying.
Galushchenko clarified that due to fires certain plant groups were lost or badly damaged. However, she pointed out that in the situation with the fauna, the negative impact will be insignificant. According to her, at the time of fires, most mammals and birds still did not have egg laying, and young animals were not born.
On April 23, the head of the Emergency Response Department of the State Emergency Situations Service (SES) of Ukraine Vladimir Demchuk said that no open fires were observed in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.