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Floods in western Ukraine
Over two days, Ivano-Frankivsk Region has had as much precipitation as it would normally have over 2.5 months, according to Ukrainian meteriologists.
The…
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Floods hit western Ukraine
Two people got killed and one went missing as a result of weather calamities in Ivano-Frankivsk Region. Several protection dams, roads and coastlines got…
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Coronavirus
Ukraine has registered 681 new coronavirus cases. There have been a total of 37,241 Covid-19 cases, including 1,012 deaths and 16,642 recoveries, since the start of the…
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Gale-force winds in the Chornobyl exclusion zone caused smouldering to resume in three places in the second half of 16 April, the State Emergencies Service has said.
According to…
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A sand storm alert has been issued for the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
The speed of wind reaches 17-22 m per s, according to the ecology and natural resources department of the Kyiv city…
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The State Emergencies Service needs several more days to liquidate smoldering in the Chornobyl exclusion zone after the fire has been extinguished there, its head Mykola
Chechotkin…
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he has been keeping an eye on wildfires raging in the Chornobyl exclusion zone since 4 April.
He thanked firefighters for courage…
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The fire in the Chornobyl exclusion zone has spread to the territory near the new confinement over the ruined generating unit No 4 of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, a member of…
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Firefighters have been battling forest fires in the Chornobyl exclusion zone for the seventh day now.
The fire started in Ivankiv District, Kyiv Region. According to the police…
- The Kyivkomunservis capital utility company will send 70 tonnes of batteries for disposal to Romania. A contract to this effect was signed on 3 February, a deputy head of the…
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Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has expressed Ukraine's sympathy for Australia hit by massive fires.
He noted that around 200 specially trained State Emergencies Service rescuers are…
- The level of ozone pollution in the air in Kyiv steadily exceeds the limit of permissible concentration, which poses a direct threat to the health of city residents, as indicated…
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Parliament has given the first reading to bill No 2051-1 banning the use of plastic bags in retail and restaurants as of 2022.
The ban will apply to bags under 50 microns but not…
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The Kyiv city state administration has decided to restrict lorry traffic coming from Boryspil as of 19 September due to an increase in air pollution.
Restrictions will be in place…
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The radiation level in Ukraine has not changed despite the recent blast at a military training range in Russia's Arkhangelsk Region, the State Emergencies Service has said,
quoting…