ДЕЯКІ АСПЕКТИ ЩОДО СТАНУ ТЕРИТОРІЇ РАЙОНІВ РІЧКОВИХ БАСЕЙНІВ ТА МОНІТОРИНГУ ВОД ПІД ЧАС ВТОРГНЕННЯ РОСІЇ В УКРАЇНУ (2022 р.)

Abstract

Characterizing the military aggression launched by the Russian Federation against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi noted on June 2, 2022 that as of today, Russian troops control about 20% of the territory of Ukraine, that is 125 thousand km2. The purpose of this article is to assess the state of the territories of some of the river basins districts of Ukraine in relation to their coming under the control of Russian troops in the summer of 2022, as well as the possibility of conducting monitoring in accordance with the state water monitoring program approved by the order of the Ministry of Environment of Ukraine for 2022. As a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as of August 1, 2022, in the territory controlled by Russian troops: a) 2 of the river basins districts – Crimea (since 2014) and Azov coast – were completely located; b) 4 areas of river basins districts were partially occupied: approx. 69% of the territory of the Don rrver basin district, 22% – of the Black Sea river basin district, 6% – of the Dnipro river basin district. Of the large water bodies in the territory captured by the Russian troops in the summer of 2022: a) 2 large canals were completely located: the North Crimean and Kakhovsky main canals; b) 1 canal was partially occupied – 40% of the length of the Siverskyi Donets-Donbas canal; c) a large part of the Siverskyi Donets River (Donbas region); d) the lower part of the Kakhovka reservoir (together with the Kakhovka HPP). Since the beginning of Russia’s military aggression in the State Water Agency of Ukraine, 1 of the 4 basic regional water monitoring laboratories (of the Eastern region) have stopped working. Water samples from these region were forwarded to the water monitoring laboratory of the Western region. Taking into account the operational military situation, in July 2022, units of the State Water Agency took water samples at 398 monitoring points, which was 68% of the number of points provided for by the state water monitoring program. In August 2022, the State Water Agency of Ukraine started preparing proposals for the surface water monitoring program for 2023, in particular: about the possibility of including additional indicators of pollutants – petroleum products, chemicals contained in ammunition, missiles; on updating the list of monitoring points based on the results of the assessment of the chemical state of surface water bodies; on the inclusion of additional water monitoring points in the de-occupied territories to detect the impact of military operations on water quality.