E PABESUED: Fires arrive at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, Ukrainians in fever by KIAMETI

These fires are already possible to approach the country with radioactive waste, according to activists, as more than 300 firefighters are doing their best to contain the flames.

In a video posted by an operator at Chernobyl, the flames and a huge cloud of smoke are seen until it rises within what looks like a defense shelter on the 4th nuclear reactor of the Chernobyli Unit, the site where the worst nuclear disaster in history had occurred, writes The Guardian, records Periscope.

Yaroslav Yemelianenko, wrote that the fire had reached the abandoned city of Pripyat and was just two kilometers away from the nuclear facility and the site of Pedlisynt's radioactive remains.

This situation is critical. The area is burning, the guy on Facebook wrote a video of the fires.

Ukraine's emergency services on Monday said the fire was the hard “, but called for calm, and did not listen to messages “apactic” of people. /Periscope