KYIV, Dec 14 - President Petro Poroshenko said that work is continuing in the exclusion zone at Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant to prepare for putting into operation an industrial complex for receiving and processing solid radioactive waste accumulated during the plant's existence.

"Today we bow with deep respect to the cleanup workers of the accident at Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. We bow to the bright memory of the heroes who saved Ukrainian land and, without exaggeration, the whole world from the spread of the radiation threat," Poroshenko said in his address to the people on the occasion of Day of Honoring Chornobyl Cleanup Workers, which was posted on the website of the head of state on Thursday.