MOSCOW, April 11. /TASS/. A fire has broken out at the Tripolskaya Thermal Power Plant (TPP), the largest power plant in the Kiev Region, the Ukrainian news agency reported.

The agency posted on its Telegram channel a video, which shows that there was a strong fire at the plant. A thick column of black smoke rises to the sky.

The Tripolskaya TPP is located on the banks of the Dnieper River (45 kilometers south of Kiev) near the village of Tripolye. With a capacity of 1,800 MW, the TPP is the largest power generation facility in the Kiev Region since the closure of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It is the largest supplier of electricity to the Zhitomir, Kiev and Cherkassy regions.