The fire began on Thursday, June 29 in the Lubyanka Forestry. The area of ??fire at the moment has already reached 25 hectares.

According to the press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, information about the fire came in the afternoon. Here during the technological deforestation of the railway, the felling of leftover wood and forest litter occurred, spreading over an area of ??about 20 hectares.

As at six o'clock in the evening, the area of ??the ground fire increased to 25 hectares and further the fire spreads to the tops of trees on an area of ??about 0.5 hectares.

Now, a Mi-8 helicopter with a spillway device was used to extinguish the fire and air reconnaissance.

The place of the fire has already dropped five times in ten cubic meters of water. In addition, two An-32P aircraft were used to combat fire. The fire is also extinguished by more than a hundred rescuers and 22 pieces of equipment, "the State Emergency Service.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in Kiev burning building of the former central deli on Khreshchatyk. According to preliminary data, there are no casualties in the fire. Movement on Khreshchatyk overlapped.