Downed Russian Drones Spark Forest Fires in Chornobyl Exclusion Zone
Authorities said one fire was extinguished and radiation levels remain within normal control limits as crews contain the remaining blazes.
- On June 29, the State Agency for the Management of the Exclusion Zone reported that fires triggered by fallen Russian drones are being liquidated across the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone.
- A similar incident in early May involving a Russian Shahed drone consumed over 1,100 hectares in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, where dry weather and landmines left by the Russian army complicate firefighting efforts.
- More than 200 people and around 60 fire trucks are battling the blazes, the State Emergency Service reported, with extreme heat hampering those intensive efforts.
- Satellite data from the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute showed plumes stretching up to 170 kilometers from fire sites, worsening air quality in Kyiv and the Vyshhorod, Bucha, and Brovary districts.
- Radiation levels are continuously checked by an automated monitoring network, which confirms that the equivalent dose rate of gamma radiation remains entirely within normal control levels.
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According to satellite observations, smoke from the Chernobyl wildfires has spread up to 170 kilometers away.
A forest fire in the Chernobyl exclusion zone is keeping hundreds of Ukrainian firefighters busy. Although authorities assure that radiation levels remain at normal levels, smoke from the fires worsened air quality in Kiev over the weekend, and meteorologists warn that it could return to the capital.
Downed Russian Drones Spark Forest Fires in Chornobyl Exclusion Zone
Forest fires triggered by the fallen Russian drones are currently being liquidated across the Chornobyl exclusion zone, Ukraine’s State Agency for the Management of the Exclusion Zone (SAEZ) reported on June 29. Emergency services, including units from Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (SES), have been deployed to extinguish the fires. A reinforcement detachment from the Kyiv region was also rushed into the exclusion zone to reinforce local crew…
No excess of the reference power levels of the equivalent dose of gamma radiation has been recorded at present.
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