Kiev will deploy the military in the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

Ukraine has excluded a section of the border with Belarus from the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to ensure the protection and defense of the border, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry reports.

"The government has agreed on a draft decree ... on the exclusion of a section of the border with Belarus from the exclusion zone... The implementation of the act will allow the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine to ensure proper protection and defense of the Ukrainian-Belarusian border and compliance with its regime," the agency said.

It is noted that we are talking about a 50-meter strip along the Ukrainian-Belarusian state border, which runs within the exclusion zone and the mandatory resettlement zone and is owned by the Chernobyl radiation-ecological Biosphere Reserve.