Our publication “Screening of legacy and emerging substances in surface water, sediment, biota and groundwater samples collected in the Siverskyi Donets River Basin employing wide-scope target and suspect screening” by Varvara Nikolopoulou, Nikiforos Alygizakis, Maria-Christina Nika, Martina Oswaldova, Peter Oswald, Marios Kostakis, Anastasia Koupa, Nikolaos S. Thomaidis and Jaroslav Slobodnik, is available in the journal of Science of The Total Environment.
Siverskyi Donets is the fourth longest river in Ukraine and its ecosystem is heavily affected by numerous agricultural and industrial activities. An impact of the on-going armed military conflicts in the Eastern Ukraine to the overall pollution by the chemicals has been studied. A comparison with the recent similar studies in the Dniester and Dnieper river basins in Ukraine has shown that the overall pollution by chemicals in the Siverskyi Donets basin is significantly lower.