Last week, Ukrainian firefighters helped by a long-awaited rain managed to put out massive forest fires that ripped through the entire uninhabited Chornobyl exclusion zone in 10 days threatening the ghost town of Prypiat, nuclear waste storage facilities, and the decommissioned nuclear plant. More fires raged closer to the Ukrainian capital and the southbound winds brought smoke to Kyiv, shortly bringing it to the top of the world’s most air-polluted cities. However, the north of central Ukraine where capital Kyiv is located hasn’t been the only region affected. The State Emergency Service or DSNS reports on fires across the entire country in the steppe and forests almost every day this April.
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A forest is shown completely burned down in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone on April 10, 2020.
