Guides say the fires destroyed 30% to 40% of local sites inside Exclusion Zone. Local guides who offer tours of Chernobyl are counting the cost following huge wildfires that this month ravaged the ...

A huge forest fire close to Chernobyl nuclear plant has been put out, according to authorities in Ukraine on Tuesday (April 14). They said hundreds of emergency workers had used planes and helicopters ...

Hundreds of firefighters on Monday battled a forest blaze in Ukraine's Chernobyl exclusion zone while officials insisted there was no risk to the ruined reactor and nearby storage facilities for ...

Ukraine’s prime minister says a major forest fire that threatened to spread to the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant zone is under control. More than 300 firefighters, three planes and a helicopter ...

Radiation levels near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster have spiked as firefighters battle to contain two forest fires in the area. Radiation levels near the site of the Chernobyl ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR PLANT, Ukraine — Five technicians secured by wires worked near the curved top of an arched steel structure that loomed the equivalent of 40 stories high, trying to extinguish the ...

MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Ukrainian firefighters labored into Sunday night trying to put out two forest blazes in the area around the Chernobyl nuclear power station, which was evacuated because of ...

KIEV (Reuters) - Emergency services were battling on Tuesday to prevent Ukraine's largest forest fire since 1992 from spreading towards the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Prime Minister ...

A drone set fire to the shelter that contains radiation from the site of the largest nuclear disaster in history. Photo: Ukrainian presidential press service A Russian drone struck the Chernobyl ...