The State Emergency Service of Ukraine, until December 24, 2012 named the Ministry of Emergencies of Ukraine is the main executive body tasked with carrying out state policy in the spheres of civil defence, rescue, creating and managing the system of insurance fund documentation, utilization of radioactive wastes, protection of population and territory in emergency situations, emergency prevention and response, liquidation in the aftermath, and the Chernobyl catastrophe. They represent Ukraine's sole fire & rescue service.
Headquarters building, Kyiv
The main Lviv fire station
A State Emergency Service Antonov An-32 firefighting aircraft dropping water on a forest fire
Fire engines and emergency service personnel responding to an incident in Kyiv, 2010
Viktor Baloha
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Viktor Ivanovych Baloha is a Ukrainian politician and the former emergency situations minister.
Baloha in 2012