Environmental damage from war in Ukraine nearing $55 billion – Ministry for Environment
This figure was announced by Ruslan Hrechanyk, First Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection, at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on Environmental Policy and Nature Management in Kharkiv on March 10.
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Every single act of damage is being registered daily, he said at the meeting.
"We count every destroyed tree. And we count every hryvnia Russia owes to us for what it has been doing," he said.
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Preliminary estimates of the damage caused to the Ukrainian environment have already exceeded UAH 2 trillion ($55 billion), said Hrechanyk.
"This includes land contamination, air pollution, burnt forests, destroyed facilities,” he explained.
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“Russia is inducing climate changes, (as well as) nuclear crisis with its actions at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, a humanitarian one.”
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