Zelenskiy suspended environmental tests on the quality of water used in ship ballast.

Zelenskiy suspended environmental tests on the quality of water used in ship ballast. He was responding to complaints by the European Business Association that state environmental inspectors were demanding bribes from ship captains on a weekly basis. When port officials said water quality will suffer, Zelenskiy replied that if port waters were swimmable, he would worry about it. By September, he said, his team will elaborate a corruption-proof system for testing ballast water. He asked Odesa Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov “to urgently resolve the issue of allocating land” for free entry to the port, UNIAN reports.