In the air of Kyiv during the week from May 22 to 27, an excess of the average daily maximum permissible concentration of nitrogen dioxide by 5 times was detected.
Compared to the previous week, the level of formaldehyde pollution has increased, according to the weekly report on air pollution from the Borys Sreznevsky Central Geophysical Observatory.
According to the data of the observatory, the exceeding of the maximum permissible concentration (MPC) in terms of the average daily content of nitrogen dioxide was:
- 2.6-5.0 times – on Demiivska, Bessarabska and Halytska squares, Obolonski, Nauka and Beresteyski avenues, Lesya Ukrainka boulevard, in the Hydropark area, Akademik Strazheska, Dovzhenka Hetman Pavla Polubotka, Inzhener Borodin, Kaunaska and Sklyarenko streets .
Exceeding the MPC by average daily content of sulfur dioxide:
- by 1.3-1.9 times – on Demiivska, Bessarabska and Halytska squares, Obolonski and Beresteyska avenues, Lesya Ukrainka boulevard, in the Hydropark district, Akademik Strazheska, Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Hetman Pavlo Polubotka, Inzhener Borodin, Kaunaska and Semyon Sklyarenko streets ;
- no excesses were observed at 37 Nauky Ave. (in the area of the meteorological station).
Exceeding the MPC by average daily formaldehyde content:
- 1.2-2.9 times – on Demiivska, Bessarabska and Halytska squares, Obolonski, Nauka and Beresteyski avenues, Lesya Ukrainka boulevard, in the Hydropark district, Akademik Strazheska, Dovzhenka, Hetman Pavla Polubotka, Kaunaska and Sklyarenko streets .
It is noted that compared to the previous week, the level of sulfur dioxide pollution has decreased. The content of other substances almost did not change.
Specialists of the observatory collected and analyzed 1,536 samples of atmospheric air from 15 stationary posts.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in Ukraine, about 703.7 thousand tons of oil, oil products and gas, as well as 61.5 thousand hectares of forests and other plantations, have burned.
