Lviv-based editorial office of the Gal-info publication has moved to the Journalists’ Solidarity Center of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU). The team hopes that this is temporary and the problem will be solved. The reason is not only in power outages, but in… generators, says Editor-in-Chief of the publication Andrii Maryniuk.
“We rent premises in one of the buildings in the very center of Lviv. We are sitting on the fifth floor. And on the first floor there is a clothing store. Not a simple one, jackets there cost from UAH 100,000. The management of this store installed two large generators in the courtyard, which is pretty small, narrow, looks like a well,” said Maryniuk.
Generators run at full capacity almost all day long. There is a crazy buzz, but you can put up with it, this is the situation in the country, business must work. Journalists put on headphones and solved the situation that way. But when the air in their room turned bluish, they rang the alarm.
“An acquaintance came in from the street and said, how are you sitting here, do you see that your air is black and there is carbon monoxide in it? During the day, we got so used to this air that we could no longer distinguish it. Then I went outside to take a breath, came back, and felt the difference,” the journalist continued.
Then Andrii, as the editor-in-chief, sent the team home, because everyone’s health is more important than anything else. And the next day, the team as a whole came to work at the office of the Journalists’ Solidarity Center. It is unknown how long this situation will last and whether it will be possible to resolve it in a proper way. Inspections during martial law are prohibited and there are no requirements on how to properly use generators. Meanwhile, Andrii Maryniuk filed a complaint to the hotline, and the local authorities did not officially respond to the journalists’ request. However, all one needs to do is to move the generators from the small courtyard to a larger space.
