In Ukraine, snowdrops have already bloomed in some cities in the second half of January. These Red Book flowers were noticed in Odessa, as well as in the Khmelnytsky region.

Photos of delicate white flowers were shared on Facebook on Thursday, January 23, by Khmelnytsky resident Evgeniy Povoroznyuk. He noted that it is still too early for them to bloom..

" Snowdrops begin to bloom in January,” the man commented..

On January 23, one of the Odessa Telegram channels also showed pictures of snowdrops in one of the city flower beds.

“Snowdrops without snow”, “But there is no snow – fog and dampness,” commented public readers in the comments.

We would like to add that as of Thursday evening (at 16:00) in the south and in some places in the west the air temperature was above +5 degrees.

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