Monitoring

After storms, the substance may poison the sea sands for at least ten years

Poltava currently has the cleanest air, while residents of Ivano-Frankivsk should be more careful

In areas with high pollution, it is better to stay indoors and keep windows closed

Activists doubt that "Forests of Ukraine" really needs them – there are no trees on the mountain pastures, but wind farms, to which blades and masts have to be delivered, are being planned

Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro have the dustiest air

Meanwhile, environmental prosecutors are returning the lands of national parks and reserves to the state piece by piece

Vinnytsia currently leads in terms of air purity

Ivano-Frankivsk has the dustiest air, while Vinnytsia has the best air quality

The council was not even shown an environmental impact assessment, and local residents complain that their wells and outbuildings ended up on land to be handed over to the investor

The air is currently cleanest in Uzhhorod and Rivne

The air in Kharkiv is currently the most polluted, whilst that in Zhytomyr is the cleanest

A scheme has been uncovered in the Volyn region through which pine trees were illegally felled, resulting in losses of over 15 million hryvnias