On the night of August 16, Kiev was hit by a heavy shower, accompanied by a heavy wind and hail.

In the capital, trees, pillars, power lines. In addition, several houses were damaged. Most of all because of the storm and hail suffered Pechersky, Shevchenkovsky, Dnieper and Desnyansky districts of Kiev. As a result of a night storm, none of the city's residents suffered. More than 200 trees were felled According to Roman Tkachuk, the head of the Kyiv city state administration for emergency situations, more than 200 trees and five power transmission lines.

Because of the night weather in Kiev also suffered at home. In particular, the facade of the building of the former department store was damaged on Khreshchatyk - the room is currently not in use. Also, with the wind, the banner that covered the consequences of the fire of 2017 also disrupted..

Because of the weather in Kiev, the traffic of trams No18 to the streets of Starovokzalnoye is blocked, as the tracks were carried by sand.

Due to fallen trees in the morning from the depot No2 could not leave trolleybus No 22, No27, No30. Now the specified transport goes on schedule.

Kiev International Airport. Sikorsky canceled two night flights because of bad weather conditions: from Barcelona (Spain) to Kiev, the airline Yanair, which was expected in 2. 15; flight Bravo Airways from Kiev to Dalaman (Turkey), which was scheduled for departure at 3. thirty; flight Ernest Airlines Naples (Italy), scheduled for 12. 15.

From 4 am to the liquidation of the consequences of the hurricane, 50 employees of special divisions of the Emergency Management Department. Also work almost 1 thousand. Communal and 50 units of special equipment.

Workers of the Department of Emergency Measures evacuated 45 m. cube. water in the capital. In particular, it was flooded by the roadway at the crossroads of the street. Teligi and St.. Shchusev, near the metro station "Dorogozhichi".

"Today we also had problems there. There was a system of drainage pumps, but still flooding occurred. That is, the capacity of the pumping group is probably not enough to clean up all precipitation in such anomalous rains. Therefore, now a group of engineers is working to put the right "diagnosis" and work out exactly on this object engineering solutions that will allow us to avoid such complications of the traffic in the future, "commented the deputy head of the KCSA Petr Panteleev.

Also, according to a video of eyewitnesses, Podol and Khreshchatyk were flooded (the shopping center "Metrograd" suffered especially).