What happened? The spill of oil products into the Dniester River was recorded in the Lviv Oblast. Due to this, in Halych (Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast), the pollution of the river exceeds the permissible norms by 200 times.
Source. Svitlana Onishchuk, Head of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Military Administration.
Details. According to her, residents of nearby settlements have been informed about the incident.
"As of today, at 9.50 a.m., officers of the Head Department of the State Emergency Service in the oblast arrived in the village of Zhuravenky in Bukachivtsi territorial community of Ivano-Frankivsk Rayon. The river section is being examined for the possibility of installing boom barriers," Ms. Onishchuk said.
The head of the Oblast Military Administration assured that the situation is under control of the relevant services.
"All necessary measures are being taken to eliminate the emergency situation," she concluded.