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UNIAN: ‘Big Construction’ program to clear access to Chornobyl exclusion zone

By UNIAN.

Published April 22, 2021. Updated April 22 at 4:51 pm

A special truck used in Chornobyl disaster liquidation is seen at the new-opened location for tourists in the abandoned city of Prypyat on April 15, 2021.

Photo by Oleg Petrasiuk

Deputy Head of the Ukrainian President’s Office, coordinator of the Big Construction project Kyrylo Tymoshenko says the government is working to ensure that the Chornobyl exclusion zone in Kyiv region becomes an area of development rather than a site of oblivion.