On the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the Chornobyl accident, the President paid tribute to the liquidators of the accident.
Viktor Yanukovych laid flowers at the Memorial to Heroes-liquidators of the Chornobyl accident near the north gate of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.
The ceremony was also attended by Head of the Presidential Administration Serhiy Lyovochkin, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Serhiy Larin, Vice Prime Minister Yuriy Boyko, Minister of Social Policy Natalia Korolevska, Minister of Finance Yuriy Kolobov, Head of Kyiv RSA Anatoliy Prysyazhnyuk.
The participants of the ceremony paid tribute to liquidators of the accident with a moment of silence.