serhii zhuk, head of the state environmental inspection in chernihiv region, is in touch with us. mr. serhiy, thank you for joining us and we would like to... ask you what the current situation is in chernihiv oblast, because this poisonous water has started to move from sumy oblast towards chernihiv oblast, and we would like to understand what the current situation is with the desna river. or it continues to be dangerous for people, and it should not be used by people in the context of bathing, collecting water, and so on. greetings from the studio, greetings from the audience, i can report that as of today , the pollution has stopped, there is a significant improvement, well, we can assume that polluting substances into the river seym have stopped, the river is gradually being cleaned, oxygen levels have returned to normal, there is still dark sediment at the bottom, but that's all.. water indicators are in relation to the desna river, the pollution is moving along the desna river, and currently it has passed through the territory of the city of chernihiv and is descending towar

this was announced by the head of the state environmental inspection of ukraine, ihor zubovych. however, what exactly caused the pollution? the state ecological inspection assumes that the cause is the discharge of organic compounds from a sugar factory in the kursk region. they came to this conclusion after analyzing space images. another version, voiced by at the kyiv ecological and cultural center, dirt could get into the water from the enterprise where, into the water from the enterprise where leather is processed in the village of tyotkino in kurshchyna. residents of sumy region talked about smores and slime on the banks of the river. in general, more than 12 tons of dead fish were collected in the diet of sumy oblast due to pollution. 8 tons of dead fish were caught in the river in the chernihiv region. however, the head of the city, oleksandr lomako, reported that chernihiv, like sumy, does not consume water from... chok, because water is taken from artesian wells, and added: threats there is no life and health of chernihiv residents. but what about kyiv, where 60% of kyi

representatives of the ministry of environment, state environmental inspection, state water agency and kyivvodokanal told journalists about this. how do experts prevent an environmental disaster and is there a threat to kyiv's water supply. our correspondent knows more from the conference natalya starepravo. irina, congratulations, congratulations to our viewers. indeed, experts, ecologists and local authorities are observing really positive changes in the rivers desna and seim, and in general the plague of fish has stopped. in total, more than 31 tons of dead fish were collected, and special aeration systems were installed on the rivers. installations that help to create, in an artificial way to create oxygen supply, because this was the main problem, why dead fish surfaced, well, in general, experts believe that the main source of river pollution was organic waste emissions from a sugar factory in russia, however , it does not pose such a significant threat to human life. now also on the rivers there are special witnesses or catches. so that the current does not carry the dead fish f

well, in our country, the state water agency, together with the state environmental inspection of ukraine, carried out daily measurements, monitoring of the surface waters of the seim river and, later, of the dysna river. monitoring showed that chemical pollution is within normal limits, but organic pollution, that is, chemical oxygen consumption exceeds, and oxygen fell when. oxygen at the norm of 4 mg of oxygen per liter, now there is less than one mg, that is, the presence of organic substances is felt, which causes a specific smell, color and oxygen consumption in water, due to the fact that this organic substance is oxidized, and what kind of organic substance is it substance, forgive us, we are no longer alone day we are fighting with the duly authorized representatives of our state in order to find out what... what kind of organic substances are these, whether it is possible to establish them with the help of chemical analysis, so what kind of organic substances are they? well , an organic substance can be the remains of the production of a poultry farm, a sugar factory, that is, w

possible to establish in more detail, because experts from the consumer service of the state environmental inspection and other services cannot even approach the border. because the five-kilometer border zone in sumy oblast is under fire, it is forbidden to visit, it is mined, and so on, and we can't communicate with someone on the other side, just like that, there is hardly an enemy there. will open a passage for us and say: look at what is happening here, regarding the situation, the diet was very badly affected, er, many fish died, died, er, not only fish, other aquatic organisms died, er, this fish was caught so that it would no longer decompose, rot in the water, and in the gums. in the same way, and we are talking about 10-12 tons, there and there, i won’t say the exact figures at the moment, this is official information from the ministry of the environment, from the new minister of the environment, here is the cloud of pollution moving further down the valley to kyiv, to the desnya water intake , where it is predicted to be somewhere around three days later. i will say right away that the team