In Kiev, on the night of August 16, a heavy rainfall took place, as a result of which many roads, underground passages were flooded, and the threshers again did not cope with such a flow of water.

In the KSCA in the morning, the work was launched to eliminate the effects of bad weather and have already calculated for which areas of Kiev bad weather was a significant blow. This was during a briefing, said the chairman of the Kyiv city state administration Petr Panteleev.

According to Panteleev, the downpour passed through Kiev with an "arrow", mainly hitting the Left Bank and the "extreme" areas of the right. Thus, the most affected forest, the Dnieper and part of the Desniansky district. However, the downpour also traversed the Shevchenkivskyi district (downtown) and Pechersk.

"In total more than 200 trees, five power poles were damaged, the roofs of the facades of buildings were damaged, and the most affected were five houses on Khreshchatyk," Panteleev said..

Khreshchatyk really suffered more than all the streets - because of the flood the sidewalks and roads are covered with a powerful layer of silt, trees and stalls are tumbled down, and Metrograd, where general cleaning is now under way. The cleaning of the city involved 50 employees of the State Emergency Service, nearly 1,000 public utilities and about 50 units of special equipment.

"As of 10:

00 the traffic has been restored and there are no problems with the movement of public transport. Now at 11:00 we can already talk about eliminating the consequences of the night weather, "Panteleev said..

Although the element in Kiev is over, weather forecasters say that for Ukraine this is not all - the storm will go further to the northeast and have been informed in what regions it should wait further. This is reported by "Arguments and Facts Ukraine".