KIEV, Sept. 3 – The State Emergency Service and foresters continue to fight a fire in a coniferous forest between the villages of Koblytsia and Velyky Lis in the Borodianka district of Kiev region.

The fire broke out on August 31 on the territory of Ivankivsky Ahrolis and Klavdiyivsky Liskhoz and spread to 24 hectares, the State Emergency Service said on Thursday morning. "The fire is being put out. An operative staff led by the first deputy head of the State Emergency Service department in the Kiev region is working on the ground," the report said.