We must learn a lesson from those events. Ukraine will never forget their feat and will always consider the heroes who live among us." And Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko wrote on Twitter: "Today, we must not only make every effort to ensure that this tragedy never happens again. Their courage and sacrifice helped save thousands of lives. The consequences of the catastrophe could be even more terrible and devastating, if not the heroism of hundreds of thousands of liquidators of the consequences of the accident. Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Hroisman noted in his address on the occasion of the anniversary: "The Chornobyl accident has become a symbol of irresponsible attitude towards the scientific and technological progress and criminal abuses of security rules. are the approximate area of contamination with radionuclides. The accident resulted in the release of three hundred and eighty million curies of radioactive substances.
The explosion of the 4th power unit on the 26th of April, 1986 led to the most massive man-made disaster in the history of mankind. On the 26th of April, Ukraine marks the 32nd anniversary of the accident at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near the city of Pripyat in Kyiv region. Ukraine marks 32nd anniversary of the Chornobyl accident