Activists of the Kharkiv "Popular Front" took part in solemn events on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of the tragedy at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. This is reported on the page of the regional party organization in Facebook.

The memorial sign to the liquidators in the Youth Park of Kharkov brought together representatives of the authorities, Chernobyl organizations, the clergy, the public.

The participants laid flowers to the monument and honored the memory of all those who died as a result of the Chernobyl disaster a minute of silence. "Every year the sad Chernobyl martyrology is replenished with new names - only during the last year 397 people died in the Kharkiv region. That's why the problems of Chernobyl victims can not be postponed until later, because we are talking about human lives, "said Nikolai Pakhnin, deputy head of Kharkiv's Popular Front..