On Sunday, March 13, fires were recorded near the settlements of Polesie, Bober, Stechanka and Rudnya-September. According to preliminary data, the cause of the fire in the Chernobyl exclusion zone is either a shell strike or arson.. But rescuers cannot go to the scene of the incident, since these territories are temporarily occupied. The Belarusian service of Radio Liberty writes about this..

The fire in the exclusion zone was reported by the Ecocenter State Specialized Company with reference to the NASA FIRMS system.. According to the general director of the company Sergey Kiriev, four facts of ignition were recorded.

“According to the classification of emergency situations, the criteria for fires in the exclusion zone should not exceed 0.05-0.2 km2, but the current state of the fire area exceeds these figures by dozens of times,” he says..

The greatest danger is fires in areas with increased radioactive contamination, as well as places where radioactive waste is located within a 10-kilometer radius from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.. The area of \u200b\u200bfires, in the absence of the possibility of their elimination, only increases.

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Recall that since the beginning of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, along with all the personnel, has been captured by the occupiers. 221 nuclear power plant workers have been held hostage for 18 days. The Russian side prevents the rotation of personnel, as well as admission to the nuclear facility of international missions. And the presence of Rosatom specialists on the territory of Ukraine, at nuclear facilities seized by the Russian army, was explained in Russia by "