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“Someone hypothesized, everyone picked it up, and it took off”: an expert on allegedly poisoned Ukrainian rivers

Recently, information about the alleged contamination of water in the Seim and Desna rivers by Russians began to spread actively on the Internet. The message quickly gained popularity, causing panic among the population, which was concerned about possible environmental consequences.

Volodymyr Boreyko, the director of the Kyiv Ecological and Cultural Center, said that the information about the alleged contamination of water by the Russians in the Seim and Desna rivers, spread this week on the Internet, is an absolute lie.

“This is an absolute lie that should not be taken for granted. Someone hyped it, everyone picked it up, and it spread.” emphasized Boreyko.

According to him, there is not even such a possibility – to poison an entire river. For this, thousands and thousands of tons of some chemicals are needed. Boreyko reminds that even Kyiv discharges a significant amount of economic substances into the water, but water as an ecosystem has the ability to be purified and diluted. This is called “conditionally purified water”. Thus, any substances that may enter the rivers will be diluted.

Boreyko also points to physical limitations that make such actions impossible:

“Let’s say, even hypothetically, in order to deliver poisonous substances to the river bank, you need to have either 20-50 large trucks, or a railway that will come very close (and railway tracks do not always come close to reservoirs). Next, if the Russians poured something into the Sejm , first of all, they would poison their own territory. Therefore, hypothetically, if there was such a desire, it would be necessary to get as close as possible to the Ukrainian-Russian border. That is, the border will be “lit up” from our side There are simply no such “safe” places there, so the Russians will not do such a thing.” the expert believes.

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In addition, he stated that any water flows. And the hypothetical poison dissolves. That is, as long as such water reached Ukraine, there would be no more poison.

 

Summarizing, the director of the Kyiv Ecological and Cultural Center added:

 

“If such a situation took place, the flora and fauna of the reservoirs would first of all react to it. After all, even when the water is normal, but the fish does not have enough oxygen, it will already die. There have been cases (for example, when some factory or farmer threw something into the river ), when we fixed the plague of fish. But this is, say, 10-15 kilometers downstream. That is, the fish will die at some point, and downstream the water will be diluted, and the fish will no longer die there was pollution, for example, somewhere in the Chernihiv region, then in the Kyiv region, and then in the Cherkasy region, and it went along the Dnieper all the way to the Kherson region, and for fish to die – this does not happen. 

I repeat, if even theoretically some kind of poisoning occurred, the fish would start to die, the crayfish would come ashore and die. And it would be so massive that such a “picture” could not be missed: now, during the heat, thousands of people are near water bodies, fishing, swimming – there would be a lot of video and photo evidence. 

Here, the rocket (!) did not fly anywhere and fell into the reservoir – this is a second of time, and someone has already recorded it. Therefore, if the fish died en masse, there would be a million photos. We don’t see it. 

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Therefore, when such a lot of information appears, when someone hyped up and ran away, critical thinking is important. And if you already give such information, then it is worth checking it with ecologists, in the environmental inspection. In this case, everyone confirmed that there was no river poisoning. Someone just hyped for the sake of panic.”

Therefore, the specialist calls on citizens to think critically and check information in competent sources, such as environmental inspections.

 

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