Experts estimated the environmental damage to Ukraine from the war at 2 trillion UAH

The First Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, Ruslan Hrechanyk, announced that as a result of the full-scale Russian invasion, more than 2 trillion UAH in damages have been inflicted on the environment in Ukraine. He emphasized this during an out-of-town meeting of the Committee on Environmental Policy and Nature Management of the Verkhovna Rada in Kharkiv.

«We continue to establish new facts about damage and destruction every day. According to preliminary estimates, the overall environmental damage is already more than 2 trillion UAH», he said.

According to the government official, «this includes land pollution, air pollution, burned forests, and destroyed objects».

«Russia is provoking a climate crisis, a nuclear crisis due to the situation with the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and a humanitarian crisis», Ruslan Hrechanyk noted.

In turn, during the event, the head of the Kharkiv regional prosecutor's office, Oleksandr Filchakov, pointed out that cases of intentional or accidental damage to the natural environment are being investigated by the department. And the people's deputy Pavlo Yakimenko emphasized that all government agencies should already be working together to develop new concepts and programs for restoring Ukraine's ecology. He also stressed the need to predict the possibility of natural and humanitarian crises already, in order to prevent them or promptly resolve any problems.