The government and the NATO Support and Procurement Agency have reported the successful completion of a joint project to clean up a nuclear waste dump dating from the Soviet era in Ukraine.

During a press conference in Kyiv on Feb. 14, NATO and government officials reported that work at the dump, situated near the town of Vakulinchuk in Zhytomyr Oblast, some 200 kilometers east of Kyiv, had been completed on Jan. 17.