Rescue rangers are fighting with a scale fire on the territory of Lubny forestry, which is in the exclusion zone of Kyiv region.

‘A huge enough fire is continuing in the exclusion zone. State Emergency Service fully implement measures to eliminate it. At the same time some Russian media have been already distorting fake information about ostensibly significant radiation increase. That’s why I instructed the leadership of the State Enterprise on managing the exclusion zone to promptly inform the Ukrainian and world media about the real situation. I ask journalists to be vigilant and not spread fakes’, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Ostap Semerak claimed on his Facebook page.

Rescue rangers had already managed to halve the area of fire in the exclusion zone. The press-service of the SES has reported about it, giving also the details of the fight against disaster.

It’s reported that on June 29 at 12:35 pm there was a fire of felling remains of wood and forest litter, which spread to an area of about 20 hectares in the Exclusion Zone and unconditional (compulsory) resettlement, on the territory of the Lubny forestry, previously in the process of technological deforestation for laying the railway.

Helicopter MI-8 with a drainage device and 2 AN-32P aircraft, which since the beginning of the work carried out 23 sorties (100 m3 of water were discharged), were attracted from the State Emergency Service for conducting aerial reconnaissance and fire extinguishing.

During a day the area of fire was decreased from 25 to 8 hectares.

The fire was localized in 337 forest quarter, there are 336 isolated foci, watched in 336 forest quarters.

The involvement of ground forces is hampered by an increase in the radiation background in the combustion site.

The total radiation background in the exclusion zone is 0.03-0.04 mR/hr (permissible 0.08 mR/h).

The threat of the spread of fire to other forest areas is absent.

Work on the creation of mineralized bands are carried out by State system of industrial devices and automation tools ‘Severnaya Puscha’ units. 3 tractors are duting at the scene. The main efforts are aimed at preventing the fire in the direction of the ‘Vector’ object.

122 people. of a personnel and 33 units. of an engineering, of them from SSNS – 63 people. of personnel and 16 units. of  equipment, including the MI-8 helicopter and 2 AN-32P aircraft were brought to fire extinguishing.

Operational group of the Main Directorate of the Emergencies Ministry of Ukraine in the Kyiv region are working at the scene.