In the Kharkiv region, in the Oskol territorial community of the Izyum district, a large-scale fire continues; forest plantations are burning on an area of about 1,200 hectares.
The fire has spread to the village of Studenok. Residents are being evacuated. More than 200 people have already been evacuated. This was reported today, September 2, in the evening by the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Sinegubov in his Telegram channel.
Rescue services, the State Emergency Service, the police, district and local administrations, and structural units of the civil defense of the Khova are working at the site in an enhanced mode, he noted. We are attracting additional resources from other regions to extinguish the fire.
Earlier today, the State Emergency Service reported that a large-scale fire has been going on for the second day in the Svyati Gory National Park, located on the border of Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, as a result of which 20 private residential buildings have burned down.
The Ministry of the Environment reports that the fire has already burned 1.5 thousand hectares of forest in the protected areas of this national park and has spread to residential buildings in nearby villages. The State Emergency Service, national park employees and the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been called in to fight the fire.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, about 9.5 thousand hectares of forest in the Svyati Gory National Park have been burned by the fire of war. 10 thousand hectares need to be surveyed and explosive devices neutralized, the department notes. — The estimated damage to the environment of the Svyati Gory National Park caused by the occupiers is more than 16 billion hryvnia.
Source: Racurs
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