Due to the seasonal rise in the water level in the rivers of Ukraine, as of the morning of April 18, 1,564 households and 330 houses remain flooded, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported..

In particular, rivers such as the Vit, Dnieper, Desna, Seim, Sozh, Pripyat, Horyn and Western Bug overflowed their banks in the territories of Volyn, Dnepropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Kiev, Kirovograd, Rivne, Poltava, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions.

The State Emergency Service assures that the hydrological situation is currently under control, and in the rivers in the north of the country there is a tendency to reduce the rate of water level rise.

At the same time, residents of the Chernihiv region suffer the most from the flood, where 474 households were flooded, Kirovograd - 323, Dnepropetrovsk - 269, Kiev - 210, Cherkasy - 181 and Poltava - 107.

Also, 170 houses were flooded in the Dnepropetrovsk region, 87 in Kirovohrad, 42 in Cherkasy, 29 in Chernihiv and two more in the Poltava region.

Roads were flooded in 30 settlements, of which 29 in the Chernihiv region and one in the Kyiv region.

9138 hectares of agricultural land flooded in Dnepropetrovsk, Volyn, Rivne, Cherkasy and Poltava regions.

The State Emergency Service says that the hydrological situation is under increased control.

Units pump out water from flooded buildings and yards and transport people from flooded yards.

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On the eve of the Director of the Department of Municipal Security of the Kyiv City State Administration Roman Tkachuk said that the peak of floods in Kyiv is expected on April 22. Now in the capital there are flooded islands in the Muromets park, Hydropark, Trukhanov Island, Galerny Bay, Korchevatoe, private plots in the Osokorkov area and the coastal zone on Obolon.