As of April 6, the vast majority of Ukraine’s major cities have good air quality. However, in some areas of regional centers, particulate matter pollution is several times higher than the norm.
This is according to data from the international monitoring platform IQAir.
In the capital, the air is safe for residents. The average level of PM2.5 particulate matter pollution is 3.4 μg/m³. According to World Health Organization (WHO) standards, this figure should not exceed 5.5 μg/m³.
Nevertheless, several monitoring stations have recorded a moderate level of air pollution. Specifically, this concerns locations such as Kyrylivska, Reheneratorna, and Almatynska streets. At the latter, the fine particulate matter concentration in the air is 17.2 µg/m3, which is almost three times the WHO standard.
All monitoring equipment connected to the IQAir system indicates good air quality in cities such as Dnipro, Cherkasy, Lviv, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, and Chernivtsi.
A “green” pollution level is also recorded in Odesa, but this is an average value. On Kvіtkova street, monitoring shows a moderate pollution level with dust content at 16.3 µg/m3.
EcoPolitic previously reported on a study by Ukrainian scientists regarding the impact of the war on air quality. Air quality is affected by both an overall decrease in pollution due to industrial shutdowns and by local surges-sometimes dozens of times higher-resulting from enemy attacks.
