Kyiv's Medical Officer of Health has banned swimming at all 11 official beaches in the city, according to the municipal water management enterprise Pleso.
A bathing water is classified as 'poor' at the following beaches: Venetsia, Dytiachy, Molodizhny, Zoloty, Peredmistna-Slobidka, Tsentralny, Verbne, Pushcha-Vodytsia, Chortoryi, Raiduha, and Telbin.
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In particular, Lake Sonyachne in Kyiv's environmentally unfavorable Darnytsky district has recently turned green and emitted a chemical odor.