MOSCOW, May 8 (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday that it ‌was carrying out enhanced radiation ‌monitoring after fires in the exclusion zone ​around the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine but that there was no excess radiation.

"The radiation situation ‌in the ⁠Russian Federation remains stable," Russia's national public health agency ⁠said.

The 1986 Chornobyl disaster is considered to be the world's worst ​civil nuclear ​accident. The ​accident spread Iodine-131, ‌Caesium-134 and Caesium-137 across parts of Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, northern and central Europe.

Ukraine's emergency services said that firefighters are extinguishing fires in ‌the exclusion area ​around the Chornobyl plant. Ukrainian ​officials ​said the radiation levels were ‌normal.

Firefighters in Ukraine said ​the ​situation was complicated by strong winds and landmines in the area.

(Reporting ​by ‌Reuters in Moscow and Kyiv, ​Writing by Anna Peverieri; editing ​by Guy Faulconbridge)