Some 10 hectares of the forest area is on fire in the Chornobyl zone in the Ivankiv district just outside the former village of Kopachi, the settlement demolished and buried after a fallout at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, according to Ukraine’s Agency for Emergency Situations. Viktoria Ruban, a spokesperson for the Kyiv regional office of the emergency agency, who is now at the scene, confirmed the initial reports on forest fire.
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