The employees of the police department of Chornobyl exclusion zone and compulsory evacuation have evacuated the residents, who live in the village of Poliske located on the territory of exclusion zone, chief of the police department major Yan Obzheliansky.
“The police of Chornobyl zone took measures to evacuate citizens who live alone in Poliske. At the moment, they were evacuated,” Obzheliansky said during a briefing on April 9.
He added that citizens have limited access to the adjacent territory: checkpoints on the border of the Poliske and Ovruch exclusion zones are closed.
Thus, as of 07.00 a.m. on April 9, measures to eliminate fires in the exclusion zone continue. There is no fire dispersal as for now.
