The obtained satellite images showed that fires are raging in the exclusion zone on an area of \u200b\u200b10111 hectares. In total, there are now 31 hotbeds of large fires.. This was reported in the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources.

Fires are not always caused by fighting. As it turned out, Russian invaders are setting fire to forests and ravines.. Such enemy actions increase the level of radioactive air pollution.

“Before the large-scale Russian invasion, the radiation background in the exclusion zone was monitored using an automated radiation monitoring system at 39 points. At present, such control and extinguishing of fires is impossible as a result of the occupation of the exclusion zone by Russian troops,” the Ministry of Natural Resources noted..

It is possible to observe the fire situation thanks to satellite images from NASA and the European Space Agency ESA.

“However, due to the limitations of Earth remote sensing data used by our specialists, we do not rule out the existence of a significant number of smaller ignition sources,” the ministry said..

Available data show that 31 large fires have formed in the exclusion zone. They covered natural ecosystems, as well as abandoned villages of the exclusion zone.

“Thanks to favorable weather conditions, the fires are now self-extinguishing. However, due to a number of factors, an increase in the number and area of \u200b\u200bfires is predicted in the near future.. We do not exclude that, under favorable conditions, fires will acquire catastrophic proportions in 2020,” the Ministry of Natural Resources emphasized..

As of March 26, the following fires were localized:.

Denisovitskoye forestry - 4 outbreaks, estimated fire area - 724.22 ha;

Kotovskoye forestry - 11 outbreaks, natural ecosystems and the resettled villages of Bober, Pukhovo, Novaya Markovka, Shevchenkovo, Kotovskoye, Zhovtnevoye, Vladimirovka, Tarasy and Polesskoe were affected. Approximate area of \u200b\u200bfires - 7672.35 ha;

Korogodskoye forestry - 10 outbreaks, natural ecosystems and the resettled villages of Stechanka and Cherevach suffered. Approximate area of \u200b\u200bfires - 549.29 ha;

Detyatkovskoye forestry - 4 outbreaks, natural ecosystems and the resettled village of Rossokha suffered. Approximate area of \u200b\u200bfires - 359.32 ha;

Lubyanskoye forestry - natural ecosystems and territories of the resettled villages of Buda and Tolstoy Les are engulfed in fire. Approximate area of \u200b\u200bfires - 771.87 ha;

Paris forestry - fire area - 34.24 ha.

[see_also ids\u003d"

Let us recall earlier that a slight increase in radioactive cesium in the air was recorded in Kyiv.