“We’re afraid that the fire will reach the nuclear power plant—the radiation level is already elevated.”
Roughly 25 acres of forest were on fire around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on Sunday, according to Ukrainian officials, who warned of spikes in radioactive air pollution that could threaten other parts of Europe. Politician Inna Sovsun wrotethat it wasn’t possible for Ukrainian firefighters to reach much of the blaze, as the territory remained under Russian control.
“We’re afraid that the fire will reach the nuclear power plant,” Sovsun said. “The radiation level is already elevated.” The parliament’s commissioner for human rights, Lyudmila Denisova, had earlier claimed that as many as 31 fires had been recorded in the plant’s exclusion zone, calling on the International Atomic Energy Agency in a Facebook post to help “prevent irreparable consequences” for both Ukraine and the world.
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