Russia has caused 6.9 trillion hryvnias in environmental damage to Ukraine
Kyiv • UNN
Since 2022, environmental damage from Russian aggression has amounted to 6.9 trillion hryvnias. Protected areas and Ukrainian soils have suffered the most.
Since 2022, the damage to the Ukrainian environment caused by Russia's armed aggression is estimated at 6.9 trillion hryvnias. This was reported by the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, according to UNN.
On World Environment Day, it is worth speaking plainly: since 2014, Russia has been waging a war to destroy all living things. The enemy has deliberately targeted Ukrainian nature, flagrantly violating every person's right to a safe environment. The damage figures since 2022 alone are shocking—6.9 trillion hryvnias,
The official emphasized that of this amount, nearly 4 trillion hryvnias account for destroyed and damaged protected natural areas. Another approximately 2 trillion are due to contaminated soil.
But behind these figures is that which cannot be measured in money. It is the stolen summer on the Black Sea, where oil spills covering up to 800 square kilometers due to port shellings are destroying marine ecosystems. It is the basic human right to have access to clean water. It is enough to recall the Russian attack on the Dniester Hydroelectric Power Plant, when an oil leak threatened the drinking water supply for hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine and Moldova. These are strikes where the consequences are felt most acutely and for the longest time,