As of the morning of October 23, good air quality prevails in Ukraine, posing no threat to human health. However, there are cities and individual locations with moderate pollution.
This is evidenced by data from the international monitoring platform IQAir.
The capital currently shows good air quality based on the average readings of monitoring stations in different locations. The main pollutant is fine particulate matter PM2.5, with a concentration of 7.1 µg/m3. At the same time, the World Health Organization standard is 5.5 µg/m3.
However, in some districts of Kyiv the air has a slightly higher, moderate level of pollution – on Sichovykh Striltsiv Street (27.5 µg/m3), Khotkevycha Street (10.8 µg/m3) and Horlivska Street (12.8 µg/m3).
In several major cities, the pollution level also falls within the "yellow" range. Such air quality does not yet pose a danger to people:
- Chernihiv – 17 µg/m3;
- Zaporizhzhia – 12.8 µg/m3;
- Mykolaiv – 11.7 µg/m3;
- Cherkasy – 11.4 µg/m3;
- Rivne – 10.9 µg/m3;
- Kharkiv – 10.4 µg/m3.
However, in most regional centers the air still has a low level of pollution and good quality:
- Lutsk – 8.7 µg/m3;
- Lviv – 7.2 µg/m3;
- Dnipro – 6.8 µg/m3;
- Odesa – 5.4 µg/m3;
- Ternopil – 5.3 µg/m3;
- Chernivtsi – 4.6 µg/m3;
- Ivano-Frankivsk – 4.1 µg/m3;
- Kherson – 4 µg/m3;
- Zhytomyr – 3.8 µg/m3;
- Poltava – 3.7 µg/m3;
- Uzhhorod – 3.3 µg/m3;
- Khmelnytskyi – 3.2 µg/m3;
- Vinnytsia – 1.2 µg/m3.
As a reminder, air pollution directly affects the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, and prolonged exposure to certain substances can be carcinogenic. Learn more about the link between the environment and health in this article.
